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The Journal of Asian Studies (JAS) has played a defining role in the field of Asian studies for over 75 years. JAS publishes the very best empirical and multidisciplinary work on Asia, spanning the arts, history, literature, the social sciences, and cultural studies. Experts around the world turn to this quarterly journal for the latest in-depth scholarship on Asia's past and present, for its extensive book reviews, and for its state-of-the-field essays on established and emerging topics. With coverage reaching from South and Southeast Asia to China, Inner Asia, and Northeast Asia, JAS welcomes broad comparative and transnational studies as well as essays emanating from fine-grained historical, cultural, political, and literary research. The journal also publishes clusters of papers that present new and vibrant discussions on specific themes and issues.
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Area Studies « Cambridge Core Blog
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Cuerpo, mestizaje y colonialidad: La alteridad de las mujeres trans en las muestras fotográficas Padre Patria y Vírgenes de la Puerta/
- 23 July 2025,
- The photographic series “Padre Patria” (2014) and “Vírgenes de la Puerta” (2014), by Juan José Barboza-Gubo and Andrew Mroczek, offer a visual narrative of...
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Pensar los 30.000 Que sabíamos sobre los desaparecidos durante la dictadura y lo que ignoramos todavía
- 23 June 2025,
- The 1970s remain a minefield in Argentina. Nothing underscores this more than the discussion about who is responsible for the cycle of political violence and...
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Meet the Editors: Tristan R. Grunow and Mary M. McCarthy, Editors for Asia-Pacific Journal
- 17 March 2025,
- We are pleased to introduce ourselves to the Cambridge Core family as the co-editors of Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Tristan is a professor of modern...
Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press
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Why Mediation, Why China? How China’s mediation system turns black-letter rules into workable harmony-and what that perspective offers the rest of us.
- 28 November 2025,
- First, in China, mediation is not the “soft periphery” of law but one of the system’s operating cores. It is embedded across institutions: from people’s mediation The post Why Mediation, Why China? How China’s mediation system turns black-letter rules into workable harmony-and what that perspective offers the rest of us. first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
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Power, Status, and the Dementia Care Relationship
- 28 November 2025,
- One afternoon, having just clocked in, I sat down next to a resident of the care home where I worked in the mid-2010s and asked her what she thought about the The post Power, Status, and the Dementia Care Relationship first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
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Back to the Future with István Hont
- 27 November 2025,
- When the intellectual historian István Hont (1947-2013) defected to the United Kingdom in 1975, he knew that he would likely never see his native country or The post Back to the Future with István Hont first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
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