Prof. B.R. Deepak (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Subham Dutrai (Sikkim University), Subhendu Ghosal (Visva Bharati University), Nishit Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Madhurendra Jha (Doon University), Prof. Amrit Sen (Visva Bharati University)

In “Confucianism in Application: Retracing the Evolution of Confucian Ideals and Its Practical Implementation in Contemporary Chinese Society”, Subham Dutrai argues that Confucianism has transcended its status of being just a political system of philosophy, and has permeated deep into mainland China’s national character & identity. In “Voice of Netizens: Understanding China in the New Era”, Subhendu Ghosal discusses 10 newly coined such words or terminologies which became popular in recent years and their origins. In “Mo Yan as China’s Cultural Capital: Why and How”, Nishit explores the question whether or not Mo Yan could be successfully used by China as cultural capital, if so to what extent. In “Involution or Alienation? Visiting the Issue through Revisiting Jia Zhangke’s ‘Hometown Trilogy’”, Madhurendra Jha argues that a critical and close reading of the ‘Hometown Trilogy’ presents us with youth who were filled with different forms of alienation, after the 1979 economic reforms