International Symposium on Chinese Digital Publishing and Reading: Evolving Models and Emergent Cultural Practices

The publishing industry is in the midst of a profound digital transformation. While technological and commercial dynamics are driving changes in publishing models and cultural practices across the globe, a deeper understanding of the role that geographic, linguistic and cultural diversity have to play in digital publishing transformation is needed. In 2017, the economic scale of China’s digital publishing and reading industry was 15.2 billion RMB Yuan (roughly AU$ 3.2 billion) and 378 million Chinese people read intensively in digital, according to China Audio-video and Digital Publishing Association. While emergent publishing models are unprecedentedly increasing public access to knowledge and empowering creative netizens in participatory cultural production, digital innovation faces multiple challenge in the Chinese contexts that differ in important ways from the West, ranging from government control to the lack of a rich public reading tradition. This symposium will involve a selected group of speakers and papers exploring the dynamics, complexity and diversity of Chinese digital publishing and reading. Co-organised by Professor Zhiqiang Zhang from Nanjing University and Dr Xiang Ren at ACIAC, this symposium is also a pre-conference event of the 26th annual conference of The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP 2018)

DETAILS

Date: Monday, 9 July 2018 Time: 9.45am - 1.00pm

Venue: EA.G.19 (LT03), Parramatta Campus (South), Western Sydney University

RSVP: Registrations are essential as places are limited. Please register via the ACIAC Website(Opens in a new window) before 8 July, 2018