Journal of Asian Studies

The Journal of Asian Studies (JAS) is a quarterly journal published by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), a scholarly, non-profit organization which brings together the shared interest of scholars in Asian studies. The journal was first issued in November 1941, under the title "The Far Eastern Quarterly", which changed to JAS September 1956. Editorship of the journal changes periodically. Recent editors of the journal have been: David D. Buck (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) from 1990-1994; Anand A. Yang (University of Utah) from 1995-2000; Ann Waltner (University of Minnesota) from 2001-2004, and Kenneth M. George (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 2005-2008. The next editor will be Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California-Irvine). In addition to the editor, there are associate editors each editor (or sometimes two in cooperation) in charge of one of the following geographic regions: China, Inner Asia, Japan, Korea, South Asia and Southeast Asia. In the past few years, book review editors have been separately assigned for the book review section of the journal, representing Asia: Comparative and Transnational China, Inner Asia, Japan, Korea, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Content

Entries

Four to six articles are featured per issue with their abstracts introduced in the beginning of the journal. The articles always undergo peer review. Article topics range from history, arts, social sciences, and to philosophy of East, South, and Southeast Asia. China represents the most dominant region that is covered in the journal. In terms of the academic disciplines represented, history is the most popular, with political science and economics which follow. Art and literature are also included.

Book Reviews

In addition to the articles, a large section is devoted to book reviews, with reviews grouped under the headings General Asia, China, Inner Asia, Japan, Korea, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Unlike the articles, book reviews are diverse in their representation of the geographical region/academic disciplines. Inner Asia remains underrepresented.

Bibliography of Asian Studies

From 1941 to 1991, the AAS published an annual "Bibliography of Asian Studies" as a companion to the quarterly "JAS" volumes. Since 1991 this has only been available by library subscription through the Association's BAS Online service.

Access

The entire contents of the JAS are currently available in full-text, searchable electronic databases. All issues from the beginning until four years ago are available on JSTOR, and more recent issues on ProQuest. Beginning with the first issue of 2007, production of the journal moved to Cambridge University Press, so current issues are available to subscribers via the Cambridge Journals Online website.

References

* [http://www.aasianst.org/ Association for Asian Studies]
* [http://www.aasianst.org/publications/JAS.htm Journal of Asian Studies]
* [http://journals.cambridge.org Cambridge Journals Online]