If you will forgive the promotion, this may be of interest to other Frogs…
Cambridge University’s humanities centre (CRASSH) recently received funding for a two-year network on China, on the theme of modernity. Most of the scholars involved are approaching this from the field of comparative literature, but also there are historians and translation scholars. There will be conferences in Cambridge (this May), Yale (later this year) and Tsinghua (2009).
Some information is online here about the May conference http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/chinaconference.html.