All guides: Asian Studies: Journals and magazines

Journals - general and multidisciplinary

Journals are scholarly publications that feature research articles, reviews, and other content contributed by experts in a specific field. Many journals are peer reviewed, meaning that the articles are evaluated by other scholars to ensure quality and rigor.

Critical Asian Studies
Critical Asian Studies features essays, reviews, translations, and interviews about Asia and the Pacific. It challenges conventional views by exploring themes like cultural integrity, poverty, oppression, and imperialism (peer reviewed).
The Journal of Asian Studies
Empirical, and multidisciplinary research across various fields, including the arts, history, literature, social sciences, and cultural studies. The journal provides in-depth scholarship on Asia’s history and contemporary issues (peer reviewed)
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies is a key publication for scholarly articles on Southeast Asia, covering countries like Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, and others. It spans various humanities and social sciences disciplines, publishing articles for a scholarly audience that are accessible to non-specialists (peer reviewed).
Asian Population Studies
Dedicated to population issues in Asia, publishes original research, including empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied studies, and methodological contributions. It covers all population study branches, from fertility, mortality, and migration analysis to the implications of population changes (peer reviewed).
Asian Affairs
Asian Affairs covers current events and recent history of Asia. It features articles on countries, historical episodes, social and political perspectives, focusing on foreign policy, governance, diplomacy, business, and travel (peer reviewed).
Asian Journal of Communication
Asian Journal of Communication (AJC) is an international publication on communication scholarship with an Asian focus and perspectives from the region (peer reviewed).

Journals - arts and culture

These journals explore the rich and diverse artistic traditions and cultural practices across Asia. They may include research articles, critical essays, and reviews that cover topics such as visual arts, music, theatre, film, literature, and cultural heritage.

Art and Asia Pacific
ArtAsiaPacific is a leading publication covering contemporary art and culture from Asia, the Pacific, and the Middle East. It features news, exhibitions, profiles of artists, and market insight
Ars orientalis
Ars Orientalis is an annual volume of scholarly articles and book reviews on the art and archaeology of Asia, including the ancient Near East and the Islamic world (peer reviewed).
Southeast of now : directions in contemporary and modern art in Asia
Southeast of Now is a scholarly journal on art and visual culture, published online and in print twice yearly by NUS Press, National University of Singapore.
Archives of Asian Art
Since its establishment in 1945, Archives of Asian Art has been devoted to publishing new scholarship on the art and architecture of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. Articles discuss premodern and contemporary visual arts, archaeology, architecture, and the history of collecting (peer reviewed).
Asian Cinema
The journal currently publishes a variety of scholarly material - including research articles, interviews, book and film reviews and bibliographies - on all forms and aspects of Asian cinema (peer reviewed).
Studies in South Asian film & media
This publication is committed to looking at the media and cinemas of the Indian subcontinent in their social, political, economic, historical, and increasingly globalized and diasporic contexts (peer reviewed).
Society and Culture in South Asia
A biannual, peer-reviewed academic journal that focuses on interdisciplinary studies of South Asia, exploring its diverse cultures, societies, and historical contexts.

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