Merge pull request #8 from chinacomx/updates2-2501

added cfa, minor changes here and there

_data/settings.yml

@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ google-ID:
 menu:
 - {name: 'About',              url: 'about'}
 - {name: 'Team',      url: 'team'}
-- {name: 'Positions',      url: 'positions'}
 - {name: 'Translations',      url: 'translations'}
+- {name: 'Apply',      url: 'apply'}
 - {name: 'Contact',            url: 'contact'}
 
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_posts/2024-01-15-welcome.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ image: lhh-reading-2.jpeg
 Welcome to this new research project titled "ChinaComx: Comics Culture in the People's Republic of China"!
 
 - To learn more about the project, see: [About](../pages/about.md). You can also visit our page at the website of the Institute of Chinese Studies at Heidelberg University [here](https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zo/sinologie/research/project-comics.html).
-- We are hiring! See [Positions](../pages/positions.md) for all the information and come do research with us!
+- We are hiring! See [Apply](../pages/apply.md) for Call for Applications and come do research with us!
 - The team members introduce themselves here: [Team](../pages/team.md)
 - And if you want to get in touch with us — please do! — see [contact](../pages/contact.md) for details.
 

_posts/2024-01-19-cfa.md

@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ tags: [cfa]
 image: lhh-1.jpg
 ---
 
-We are hiring - come work with us and do your PhD on Chinese comics!
+We are hiring! Come research with us and do your PhD on Chinese comics.
 
-For details and the Call for Applications, see in the [Positions](https://chinacomx.github.io/positions) section of the website.
+For details and the Call for Applications, see in the [Apply](../pages/apply.md) section of this website.

_site/404.html

@@ -63,10 +63,10 @@ <h3 class="site-title">
 
       <a href="/team" class="menu-link">Team</a>
 
-      <a href="/positions" class="menu-link">Positions</a>
-
       <a href="/translations" class="menu-link">Translations</a>
 
+      <a href="/apply" class="menu-link">Apply</a>
+
       <a href="/contact" class="menu-link">Contact</a>
 
 
@@ -79,10 +79,10 @@ <h3 class="site-title">
 
         <a href="/team" class="menu-link">Team</a>
 
-        <a href="/positions" class="menu-link">Positions</a>
-
         <a href="/translations" class="menu-link">Translations</a>
 
+        <a href="/apply" class="menu-link">Apply</a>
+
         <a href="/contact" class="menu-link">Contact</a>
 
 

_site/CATS-Forum2024.html

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       <a href="/team" class="menu-link">Team</a>
 
-      <a href="/positions" class="menu-link">Positions</a>
-
       <a href="/translations" class="menu-link">Translations</a>
 
+      <a href="/apply" class="menu-link">Apply</a>
+
       <a href="/contact" class="menu-link">Contact</a>
 
 
@@ -82,10 +82,10 @@ <h3 class="site-title">
 
         <a href="/team" class="menu-link">Team</a>
 
-        <a href="/positions" class="menu-link">Positions</a>
-
         <a href="/translations" class="menu-link">Translations</a>
 
+        <a href="/apply" class="menu-link">Apply</a>
+
         <a href="/contact" class="menu-link">Contact</a>
 
 

_site/about.html

@@ -63,10 +63,10 @@ <h3 class="site-title">
 
       <a href="/team" class="menu-link">Team</a>
 
-      <a href="/positions" class="menu-link">Positions</a>
-
       <a href="/translations" class="menu-link">Translations</a>
 
+      <a href="/apply" class="menu-link">Apply</a>
+
       <a href="/contact" class="menu-link">Contact</a>
 
 
@@ -79,10 +79,10 @@ <h3 class="site-title">
 
         <a href="/team" class="menu-link">Team</a>
 
-        <a href="/positions" class="menu-link">Positions</a>
-
         <a href="/translations" class="menu-link">Translations</a>
 
+        <a href="/apply" class="menu-link">Apply</a>
+
         <a href="/contact" class="menu-link">Contact</a>
 
 
@@ -96,18 +96,22 @@ <h1>
     About
   </h1>
   <article>
-    <p>Comics Culture in the People’s Republic of China (ChinaComx) sets out to investigate the intellectual, political, social, historical, and transcultural dimensions of a medium still heavily understudied: lianhuanhua, literally “linked images.” It studies them as a medium from the People’s Republic of China and its place within the larger Chinese and global comics culture. Studying the conditions of comic art’s production, distribution and consumption, the project sheds light on how comics contribute to the project of nation building, to the creation of a new socialist man and to the continued legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In addition, it investigates how these at times highly propagandistic texts were read by ordinary citizens. In clearly circumscribed case studies, the project analyzes large amounts of literary and filmic adaptations, the conventions of text-image relations (and the breaking of these conventions), narrative qualities, as well as the visual language which is very much indebted to other visual forms of art, including traditional Chinese visual art, cartoons, propaganda posters, photography and movies. With its focus on practices and meaning making, ChinaComx moreover delves into the changing global cultural, political and economic connections within the socialist cultural sphere, within the Greater China region, East Asia and beyond, tracing distinct and changing relationships of domestic and foreign elements. The case studies cover developments since the late 1940s to the present and situate concrete phenomena within larger developments and traditions. In providing more knowledge about comic culture from China and in contributing to theoretical debates, ChinaComx aims to delineate the term „lianhuanhua“ as a distinct genre and area of academic research that bears specific characteristics, being embedded in a particular context of origin, yet, changing across time and space as Japanese manga or Franco-Belgian bandes desinnées.</p>
+    <p><strong>Comics Culture in the People’s Republic of China (ChinaComx)</strong> sets out to investigate the intellectual, political, social, historical, and transcultural dimensions of a medium still heavily understudied: lianhuanhua, literally “linked images” (连环画). It studies them as a medium from the People’s Republic of China and its place within the larger Chinese and global comics culture. Studying the conditions of comic art’s production, distribution and consumption, the project sheds light on how comics contribute to the project of nation building, to the creation of a new socialist man and to the continued legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In addition, it investigates how these at times highly propagandistic texts were read by ordinary citizens.</p>
+
+<p>In clearly circumscribed case studies, the project analyzes large amounts of literary and filmic adaptations, the conventions of text-image relations (and the breaking of these conventions), narrative qualities, as well as the visual language which is very much indebted to other visual forms of art, including traditional Chinese visual art, cartoons, propaganda posters, photography and movies. With its focus on practices and meaning making, ChinaComx moreover delves into the changing global cultural, political and economic connections within the socialist cultural sphere, within the Greater China region, East Asia and beyond, tracing distinct and changing relationships of domestic and foreign elements. The case studies cover developments since the late 1940s to the present and situate concrete phenomena within larger developments and traditions.</p>
+
+<p>In providing more knowledge about comic culture from China and in contributing to theoretical debates, ChinaComx aims to delineate the term <strong>lianhuanhua</strong> as a distinct genre and area of academic research that bears specific characteristics, being embedded in a particular context of origin, yet, changing across time and space as Japanese <em>manga</em>， Korean <em>manhwa</em>, or Franco-Belgian <em>bandes desinnées</em>.</p>
 
 <p><img src="../assets/img/logo-erc.png" alt="Alt text" /> 
-ChinaComx is an <a href="https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101088049">funded by the European Union</a> (ERC, ChinaComx, Grant agreement ID: 101088049). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.</p>
+ChinaComx is an <a href="https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101088049">funded by the European Union</a> (ERC, Grant agreement ID: 101088049). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.</p>
 
 <p><br />
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 <p><img src="../assets/img/logo-heidelberg.png" alt="Alt text" />
 <br />
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-We are located at <a href="https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zo/sinologie/research/project-comics.html">Heidelberg University</a>.</p>
+We are located at the <a href="https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zo/sinologie/research/project-comics.html">Centre for Asian and Transculutural Studies, Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University</a>.</p>
 
   </article>
 </div>

_site/activities.html

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       <a href="/team" class="menu-link">Team</a>
 
-      <a href="/positions" class="menu-link">Positions</a>
-
       <a href="/translations" class="menu-link">Translations</a>
 
+      <a href="/apply" class="menu-link">Apply</a>
+
       <a href="/contact" class="menu-link">Contact</a>
 
 
@@ -79,10 +79,10 @@ <h3 class="site-title">
 
         <a href="/team" class="menu-link">Team</a>
 
-        <a href="/positions" class="menu-link">Positions</a>
-
         <a href="/translations" class="menu-link">Translations</a>
 
+        <a href="/apply" class="menu-link">Apply</a>
+
         <a href="/contact" class="menu-link">Contact</a>