[KS] CFP The Poor in East Asian Cultures

[Pierre-Emmanuel Roux]

Dear colleagues,
Please find below the Call for Papers for another forthcoming issue of
*Extrême-Orient,
Extrême-Occident*, also scheduled for publication in 2023.


*Poverty lines. The Poor in East Asian Cultures*

At a time when China triumphantly claims to have overcome extreme poverty
(February 25, 2021), perhaps it is time to question afresh the definitions,
representations and status of the poor in East Asian countries. A minimal
definition of poverty by Georg Simmel (1858-1918) provides an interesting
starting point to address such a large question: “The poor person,
sociologically speaking, is the individual who receives assistance because
of this lack of means” (*The Poor*, 1965. Translation by Claire Jacobson).
In Simmel’s thought and in his sociological approach to money, this
definition is only operational in the economic and social sphere. However,
we surmise it could be stretched toward other fields, and even be applied
to a voluntary form of poverty aimed at obtaining spiritual richness.

This thematic issue of *Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident* aims to explore
the characterizations of poverty in East Asian cultures based on the
various representations of the “poor”. Contributions could draw on
literary, historical, pictorial, cinematographic as well as economic or
sociological analyzes to identify developments and changes in the way the
poor are looked at and considered. How people speak out in defense of the
poor could also be questioned, and not only from the institutional
perspective of poverty reduction.

East Asian literature (in the broadest sense) and the arts, both past and
present, are rich with very precise evocations of the poor, situating them
in places (urban or rural), statuses and occupations, forms of life
(eremitism, monasticism) or strategies of care. They also present different
approaches depending on whether one considers poverty as a state, a stigma,
a passage in one's life or as an inalienable, even inevitable part of the
human condition, linked to a certain idea of destiny.

We expect contributors to pay a particular attention to the vocabulary
(synonyms and connotations) that designates poverty and the poor in East
Asian languages. Likewise, texts, works and documents that characterize and
question oppositions such as rich/poor or powerful/poor should be put under
close scrutiny in order to answer questions such as: How are perceived the
shifts from poverty to misery? What are the forms of solidarity aimed at
avoiding these shifts? Contributors should as well focus on the negative
characterization of these shifts in new contexts: for instance, how does
perception change when the poor shift from the countryside to the city,
hence when they adopt a sedentary or vagabond way of life?

Proposals for papers, in English or in French, should be addressed to the
two editors of the journal : matthias.hayek at ephe.psl.eu and
pierre-emmanuel.roux at u-paris.fr, as well as to Stephane Feuillas
stephane.feuillas at gmail.com and Christian Lamouroux
christianlamouroux at gmail.com, guest editors for this issue.
If you are interested in contributing to this issue, the editors kindly ask
you to submit a tentative title and an abstract by *July 15, 2022*.
Full manuscripts should be submitted no later than *October 30, 2022* and
follow the submission guidelines outlined here:
https://journals.openedition.org/extremeorient/739.


-- 
*Pierre-Emmanuel Roux*

Maître de conférences / Associate professor  副教授
Université Paris Cité
UFR Langues et civilisations d'Asie orientale  /  Dept of East Asian
Languages and Civilizations
Adresse postale / postal mail : UFR LCAO - case 7009, Université de Paris,
5 rue Thomas Mann, 75205 Paris Cedex 13  FRANCE
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