Dance Research JournalThe Dance Research Journal (DRJ) is a peer-reviewed premiere publication for dance scholarship of international reach and includes articles, book reviews, and lists books received. DRJ is published three times per year by Cambridge University Press. Published articles address dance history, theory, politics, ethnography, and intersections with cultural, gender, critical race, and diasporic studies among others. DRJ is committed to cross-disciplinary research with a dance perspective. Contributions for publication consideration are open to both members and nonmembers of DSA, and will be accepted any time. Digital access to the Dance Research Journal is free for all members. Active members may access the journal through the member access page. Not yet a member? Access DRJ immediately when you join today! Access DRJ through Cambridge University Press. View on Project Muse (2008-). View on JSTOR (1974-2011). Most Recent IssueVolume 57 - Special Issue 2 - August 2025 (excerpt from Editors' Note by Special Issue Editor Fangfei Miao) This special issue marks the first time that Chinese dance scholars have collectively written in English for readers in Anglophone academia. Instead of a translation of Chinese-language scholarship, this issue comprises English-language articles by Chinese scholars who know how to address the discrepancy in writing styles, theoretical assumptions, and ideological discourses across Anglophone and Chinese dance academia, a discrepancy that cannot be solved by language translation. Such a scholarly collectivity suggests an anti-white-supremacist move, in which Chinese-identified scholars seek visibility in Anglophone academia against the neutralization of both Western-centric notions of dance in China and the representation of these notions. Following Sansan Kwan and Yutian Wong in their co-edited issue, Dancing in the Aftermath of Anti-Asian Violence, the contributors and I highlight the significance of listening to the Asian scholars, who themselves are a vulnerable group of people often subject to racial violence in the West. Yet this special issue by no means wants to be authoritative but instead aims to expand the ways in which dance can be imagined, examined, and written. Due to ideological differences, economic competition, and the rise of nationalism amid globalization, how the West envisions China will likely never align with how China envisions itself. The articles here neither align with Western nor with Chinese mainstream ideologies regarding the image of China. The authors situate themselves in a third, in-between space to produce dance scholarship that speaks to both Anglophone and Chinese-language academic communities. As Yutian Wong has disabused the optimistic belief that “greater representation, recognition, or visibility will solve anti-Asian violence” (2023, 9), this issue is not simply about Chinese people’s self-representation in a Western context. A Chinese-authored dance scholarship can, to some extent, decenter white-centric conceptions about dance in China. Yet, this act of decentering itself serves to update the Western epistemological system, to facilitate knowledge production in the West, which again centralizes the West. Therefore, the authors not only write for Anglophone readers but also for their peers in China about possible effective approaches to transnational and translingual communication in dance research. Read the IssueDRJ Submissions, Guidelines, and Other OpportunitiesDRJ Special Issue Procedures & Guidelines DRJ Conflict of Interest Policy Priya Srinivasan, Executive Co-Editor To see the full Editorial Board, visit the Leadership & Management page. |
