International Journal of Asian Studies
Aims and scope
The International Journal of Asian Studies (IJAS) is an interdisciplinary, English-language forum for research in the humanities and social sciences. Its purpose is to foster multi-directional communication in the global Asian studies community. IJAS examines Asia as a region, emphasizing patterns and tendencies that go beyond the borders of individual countries. The Editors welcome theoretical and empirical research, including interdisciplinary approaches that cross methodological boundaries, comparative perspectives that draw on data from multiple regions, and the development of new methodologies. The committee encourages submissions from Asian studies researchers globally, and especially welcomes the opportunity to introduce the work of Asian scholars to an English-language readership.
IJAS is published by Cambridge University Press in association with the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo.
Current issue: (vol 23:1, Jan 2026)
Research Article
- Changing politics of East Asian colonial and wartime memory in UNESCO, Jihon Kim, Andrew D. Gordon
- What happened to the Ekottarikāgama 增壹阿含經 T125 after the death of Dao’an?, Michael Radich, Jamie Norrish
- Tin, secret societies, and the slow development of the Chinese mining community in a Siam-Burma border village of Maliwun, 1840s–1890s, Yi Li
- When the imperial household hollowed out the state: ultra-bureaucratic extraction and the collapse of fiscal governance in Late Qing China, 1851–1908, Jia Feng
- Cooperation and confrontation: a conflict analysis between Rhenish Missionary Society (RMG) and German Missionaries in China, Ruotong Shi, Hanyi Zhang
- Navigating individual and organizational dynamics: Hangzhou first normal school network, Weekly Review editorial board, and the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Yifan Shi, Nan Ma
- Taxation without public service: Tianjin meat safety regulation in the Republican era, Liu Zhaokun
- Globalising Vietnam’s national identities in the early twentieth century, Minh Vu
Book Review
- Pious Girls: Young Muslim Women in Indonesia By Annisa R. Beta. Routledge, 2023. 128 pages. Hardcover, £104.00, ISBN 9781032444222. Ebook, £31.19, ISBN 9781003372127, Desi Nuralim, Aan Diana
- Textual Cacophony: online video and anonymity in Japan By Daniel Johnson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023, 162 pages. Softcover, $26.95 USD, ISBN 9781501772269, Dylan H. O’Brien
- Unboxing Japanese Videogames: A Metadata-Based Approach to the Production and Distribution of Spatial Instability By Martin Roth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2025. 192 pages. Ebook, open access, ISBN: 9780262382892. Paperback, ISBN: 978-0262552226., Christopher Gerteis
- The semantics of development in Asia: exploring “untranslatable” ideas through Japan – Edited by Jin Sato and Soyeun Kim. Singapore: Springer. 243 pp. Hardback, ¥7,149 JPY, ISBN: 978-9819712144. Softcover, ¥4,999, ISBN: 978-981-97-1216-8. Ebook, open access, ISBN: 978-9819712151, Nikolay Murashkin
- How to enlighten, how to mobilize: a conceptual history of the enlightenment in modern China (如何啟蒙，怎樣運動：近代中國「啟蒙運動」的概念史) By Chien-shou Chen. Academia Sinica, 2023. 438 pages, Hardback, $400 NTD, ISBN: 9786267341452., Kenneth Kai-chung Yung
- Human–Animal Relations and the Hunt in Korea and Northeast Asia By George Kallander. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2023. 320 pages. Hardback, £90.00 GBP, ISBN: 9781399512091. Paperback, £24.99, ISBN: 9781399512107. Ebook, £24.99, 9781399512121., Aaron Molnar
- Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today’s India By Christophe Jaffrelot. London: Hurst (dist. Oxford University Press), 2024. 416 pages. Hardback, £30.00 GBP, ISBN: 9781849044295, Prem Singh Gill
- Wayward Distractions: Ornament, Emotion, Zombies and the Study of Buddhism in Thailand by Justin Thomas McDaniel. Singapore: NUS Press, 2021. 292 pages. Paperback, $36.00 SGD, ISBN: 978-9813251502., Will Buckingham
Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter
Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter
Back issues
- Vol. 23, No. 1 (January 2026) , current
- Vol. 22, No. 2 (July 2025)
- Vol. 22, No. 1 (January 2025)
- Vol. 21, No. 2 (July 2024)
- Vol. 21, No. 1 (January 2024)
- Vol. 20, No. 2 (July 2023)
- Vol. 20, No. 1 (January 2023)
- Vol. 19, No. 2 (July 2022)
- Vol. 19, No. 1 (January 2022)
- Vol. 18, No. 2 (July 2021)
- Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 2021)
- Vol. 17, No. 2 (July 2020)
- Vol. 17, No. 1 (January 2020)
- Vol. 16, No. 2 (July 2019)
- Vol. 16, No. 1 (January 2019)
- Vol. 15, No. 2 (July 2018)
- Vol. 15, No. 1 (January 2018)
- Vol. 14, No. 2 (July 2017)
- Vol. 14, No. 1 (January 2017)
- Vol. 13, No. 2 (July 2016)
- Vol. 13, No. 1 (January 2016)
- Vol. 12, No. 2 (July 2015)
- Vol. 12, No. 1 (January 2015)
- Vol. 11, No. 2 (July 2014)
- Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 2014)
- Vol. 10, No. 2 (July 2013)
- Vol. 10, No. 1 (January 2013)
- Vol. 9, No. 2 (July 2012)
- Vol. 9, No. 1 (January 2012)
- Vol. 8, No. 2 (July 2011)
- Vol. 8, No. 1 (January 2011)
- Vol. 7, No. 2 (July 2010)
- Vol. 7, No. 1 (January 2010)
- Vol. 6, No. 2 (July 2009)
- Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 2009)
- Vol. 5, No. 2 (July 2008)
- Vol. 5, No. 1 (January 2008)
- Vol. 4, No. 2 (July 2007)
- Vol. 4, No. 1 (January 2007)
- Vol. 3, No. 2 (July 2006)
- Vol. 3, No. 1 (January 2006)
- Vol. 2, No. 2 (July 2005)
- Vol. 2, No. 1 (January 2005)
- Vol. 1, No. 2 (July 2004)
- Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 2004)
Call for papers
The Journal seeks both original papers and survey articles that fall within its scope, broadly defined.
Papers are accepted in English, with a word limit 12,000 words, including footnotes. Submissions should be submitted online via the journal information page on the Cambridge University Press website.
Instructions for authors can be found on the the website of Cambridge University Press website.
Email enquiries may be send to ijas[@]
Editorial board
- Norihisa Baba
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo, Japan
Editor-in-chief
- Sebastian Veg
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo, Japan; and Centre de Recherches Historiques, EHESS, France
Executive Editor
- Sam Bamkin
the University of Tokyo, Japan
Managing Editor
- Waka Aoyama, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo, Japan
- Michihiro Ogawa, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo, Japan
- Lloyd Ridgeon, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo, Japan
- Pattajit Tangsinmunkong, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo, Japan
- Shoko Watanabe, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo, Japan
Associate Editors
- Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
- Sébastien Billioud, University Paris-Diderot, France
- Prasenjit Duara, Duke University, USA
- Patrick Flores, University of the Philippines, Philippines
- Christopher Gerteis, SOAS University of London
- Najaf Haider, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
- Soyeun Kim, Sogang University, South Korea
- Cheng Chwee Kuik, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia
- Dilip M Menon, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
- Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Australian National University, Australia
- Mansur Sefatgol, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Tehran, Iran
- Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University, USA
- Tuong Vu, University of Oregon, USA
- Christine Yano, University of Hawai’i, USA
Regional Editors
All inquiries to
International Journal of Asian Studies Office,
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo,
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 JAPAN
Tel/Fax: +81-(0)3-5841-5859
e-mail inquiries to ijas[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
For information about the Journal, also see the website of Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-asian-studies.