China Books Review operates as a magazine dedicated to serious literary and cultural criticism, and this open call for profiles reflects that mandate. The editors are not seeking conventional author Q&As or promotional features; they want narrative-driven "review profiles" that engage deeply with both the work and the life of a sinophone creative figure. The form is deliberately hybrid: part critical essay, part biography, part reported feature. The expectation is that the writer will read multiple works by the subject, conduct at least one interview with the profilee, and interview at least one additional source about them. This is a rigorous assignment, and the magazine treats it as such. The scope is broad within its linguistic and cultural focus. Subjects may be authors, filmmakers, or other artists working in Chinese or sinophone contexts. While a recent work by the subject can serve as a timely peg, the editors also accept general profiles that survey an entire oeuvre. Crucially, the profile must be organized around a specific angle—a thesis about the subject's work as a whole—rather than functioning as a chronological overview. That angle is what distinguishes a publishable piece here from a merely informative one. There is no submission fee, and the call is rolling, which means there is no artificial deadline pressure. But the absence of a deadline should not be mistaken for a lack of standards. The magazine publishes writing that assumes a reader's intelligence and a subject's complexity. Writers are expected to bring their own critical framework, their own reporting, and their own prose style. The reward is publication in a venue that takes sinophone culture seriously as literature and art, not as sociological data.