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　Welcome to our website www.cclaa.org, which is created by Comparative Literature and Foreign Literatures Research Center in Shanghai Normal University and Academic Committee of China Comparative Literature Association (CCLAA). On this site, you will find information about our efforts to serve scholars both at home and abroad who have a strong interest in comparative literature. On this site, we attempt to construct a platform for scholars who would like to share their new research and have a communication with fellows in every part of the world.

　We have “Cowrie” as the name of our site, for “Cowrie” is never separated from us since the early years of our comparative literature study in China. Cowrie was a Chinese Journal of Comparative Literature founded by Professor Sun Jingyao and Mark Bender, published by Lijiang Publishing House 1983 through 1988 in a total of six issues. For a few years Cowrie was the only English-language journal in China that sought to promote the awakening field of comparative literature in China. Cowrie represents a one facet of the "coming alive" of young intellectuals in China during the early and mid-1980s and offers a look from another perspective at the world of Chinese comparative literature studies of that era.

　Now we have eight columns on our site,namely, Academic News, Academic Works, Classic Topics, Scholars’ Album, Resource Downloading, Online Translation, Message Board, Cowrie Forum(BBS). On each columns, we offer both classic and current resources and topics on academic research for scholars.

　If you have any comments or suggestion, you can leave your massage on our Message Board, or email us: webmaster@cclaa.org, cowrieweb@yahoo.com