Our Editorial Committee has Professor Lai Chi-tim as the Chief Editor, and Professor Vincent Goossaert, the Co-editor. The editors plan to publish one issue a year, both on paper and electronically, and to carry book reviews and bibliographic essays. Publication and distribution will be carried out by The Chinese University Press.

A major distinguishing feature of the journal is its resolutely bilingual English-Chinese character. Each issue will have articles in both languages, with an abstract in the other language. The editorial team (the editorial committee formed of nine scholars, and English and Chinese copy-editors) will work in both languages. We thereby aim to provide a forum where scholars of both the Chinese-speaking and Western worlds can share their views.

The scope of the journal is broadly defined as all social sciences and humanities approaches to Daoism. The editors particularly seek articles exploring Daoism in its social and historical contexts, from the pre-modern to the contemporary period, rather than exegetical or philosophical spiritual pieces. Innovative research based on new documents and/or fieldwork will be most welcome. In any case, submissions will be evaluated on the basis of scholarly quality; the editorial committee will first screen them for inherent quality and fit with the journal’s scope, and then, if accepted at this first stage, be sent to two external referees on a double-blind basis. The editors are definitely favouring quality over quantity. Both individual submissions and projects of guest-edited special issues are welcome.

You are cordially invited to submit your papers to:

The Editorial Board
Daoism: Religion, History and Society
Centre for the Studies of Daoist Culture
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
E-mail : daoist@cuhk.edu.hk

Please check out our website for more details: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/crs/dao/index_en.html