Open Access Journal: Transcultural Studies

Transcultural Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal committed to promoting the knowledge and research of transculturality in an interdisciplinary context. Initiated in 2010, it is published by the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries and Cultural Flows” at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and hosted by the University Library of the same institution.

As an e-journal, Transcultural Studies provides contributors with a number of advantages not available in traditional printed form. High definition images, sounds, and videos may be included for an enriched textual experience. If contributors wish, an additional Wiki-platform can be added to allow readers to debate, comment on, and supplement the published materials. Transcultural Studies does not limit word count and accepts a range of literary forms, from scholarly investigations with extensive documentation to scholarly articles, films, translations of scholarly works, and review essays. While contributions are written in English, vernacular scripts are added if necessary.

Transcultural Studies strongly invites contributions from scholars working on topics related to or concerning the study of transculturality. Submissions will be published in the order in which they are accepted until the issue is closed; there will be two issues per year.

Previous Issues:
No. 1 (2010)
featuring contributions by Arjun Appadurai, Douglas Howland, James Elkins, and Gennifer Weisenfeld.
No. 1 (2011)
featuring contributions by Rudolf G. Wagner, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Christine Stephan-Kaissis, Stefan A. Faller, Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Claudia Wenzel, and Atushi Shibasaki in a translation by Gaynor Sekimori.
No. 2 (2011)
featuring contributions by Michael Falser, Vladimir Tikhonov, Franziska Koch, Jennifer Elisabeth Altehenger, Laila Abu-Er-Rub, Sebastian Gehrig, Sandra Annett, and Lena Henningsen.
No. 1 (2012)
featuring contributions by Philipp W. Stockhammer, Derya Bayır and Prakash Shah, Roland Wenzlhuemer and Michael Offermann, Shukla Sawant, and Christine Guth.

Current Issue:

No 2 (2012)

Table of Contents

Cover 2012/2	PDF
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Editor's Note

Issue 2012/2	HTMLPDF
Rudolf Wagner	4-6

Multimedia

Trajectories of Meaning: the Shifting Power of Things	HTMLPDF
Neil MacGregor	7

Articles

Sub-National Movements, Cultural Flow, the Modern State, and the Malleability of Political Space: From Rational Choice to Transcultural Perspective and Back Again	HTMLPDF
Subrata Mitra	8-47

Themed Section: The Transcultural Travels of Trends

From East Lynne to Konggu Lan: Transcultural Tour, Trans-Medial Translation	HTMLPDF
Xuelei Huang	48-84

Tracking Trends and Brands in the International Children's Book Market	HTMLPDF
Petra Thiel	85-124