Good news for all your artistic procrastinators: with the pushback of the launch date for Issue IV: Suzhi – now slated for a summer release – the submission deadline for issue content has been extended to Monday, April 27.

‘Suzhi’ is a word so ubiquitous in China that no one can define it.Concrete Flux hear it from the mouths of their professors, cab drivers, political leaders, colleagues and they see traces of it in television ads, on patriotic banners, and school gates. Well-behaved children have suzhi. So do the principled soldiery, the traveled and moneyed, the socially circumspect. But what does suzhi actually mean? While at its most basic, suzhi signifies upstanding character and propriety; to say that someone lacks or has suzhi carries with it a whole host of connotations involving place, class, and culture.  But does it carry the same connotations to everyone? And, what does suzhi mean in the context of urbanisation? Concrete Flux invite you to explore these questions through all mediums for Issue IV.

Concrete Flux is a China-focused multi-disciplinary journal, accepting submissions across mediums including prose, poetry, research, photography and design. Any audio/visual works or pieces otherwise unsuited to a printed medium will be included in the online edition.

Please send submissions to [email protected] before April 27 for consideration.

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