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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Dear Colleagues,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:KO"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc is preparing the third volume of its publication series and is open to submissions of original work of
 research pertaining to the overall topic and not previously published.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The publication follows up on the 16th Annual Conference on Asian Studies in Olomouc that revolved around the theme
<i>Bodies, Gender, Identities</i> (see further information on the conference homepage (<u><a href="http://acas.upol.cz">http://acas.upol.cz</a></u>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">To collect chapters for this volume, the editors first invite
<b>extended abstracts</b>, 700–1,000 words long, in English, to be mailed to<b> <a href="mailto:olas@upol.cz">
olas@upol.cz</a></b> per PDF file. Besides the abstract, this file must contain the title of the suggested paper, five keywords, and information about the author (full name, affiliation, e-mail address). The abstract submission deadline is<b> 14 May 2023</b>.
 Decisions will be sent by 18 June 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The submission deadline for
<b>full papers</b>,<b> </b>developed from the accepted abstracts, is<b> 31 August 2023</b>. The required length is 10–11,000 words (excluding references, tables, etc. from the word count). All manuscripts will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer-review process.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The decision on the submitted full papers will be sent by the end of 2023.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The expected publication date is summer 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Sincerely,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Andreas Schirmer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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