Looking back at the past half-century since the founding of the journal Modern China in 1975,we can see that in the beginning non-Chinese American scholars accounted for fully 73%of all articles.That figure re-mained at a fairly high 64%at the end of the century,but has declined greatly since,first down to 26%by 2005-2009,and further to just 11%in 2020-2022.That decline has been partly countered by the increasing numbers of Chinese-origin scholars(US citizens or not)based in the US.At the same time,the proportion of articles pub-lished by mainland China-based scholars has steadily increased in the past two decades,reaching the present 28%.If we add to those articles Chinese-origin scholars both inside and outside the US,citizens or not,the total proportion rises to 65%,nearly two-thirds of all our articles,a sea change for the journal.Alongside that change,there has been the rise and expansion also of non Chinese-origin scholars in the rest of the world outside the US.Together these changes tell about the dramatic transnationalization of English language-based China studies as a whole,from mainly non-Chinese origin American scholars to an ever-increasing proportion of Chinese-origin scholars,and from mainly a US endeavor to an ever more transnational one.This article,in addition to reviewing the above changes,will also discuss some suggestions for prospective young scholars who intend to submit arti-cles to the journal.
non-Chinese origin American scholarsChinese-origin scholars in the USmainland Chinese scholarsChinese-origin scholars outside the USmain issues discussed in the journal