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23-513: The Journal of Asian Studies is the flagship journal of the Association for Asian Studies , publishing peer-reviewed academic scholarship in the field of Asian studies . With an acceptance rate of approximately 6%, it upholds rigorous standards in the evaluation and publication of scholarly research. Each issue of the Journal of Asian Studies circulates over 8,200 copies, reaching a readership across

46-648: Is abstracted and indexed in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index , Social Sciences Citation Index , and Scopus . According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 0.917. Association for Asian Studies The Association provides members with an Annual Conference (a large conference of 3,000+ normally based in North America each spring), publications, regional conferences, and other activities. Shortly after World War I ,

69-629: The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation , gave Mortimer Graves a mandate to develop Chinese studies. Kenneth Scott Latourette would recall in 1955 the "people of the United States and those who led them knew little of the peoples and cultures of the Far East" and that was "in spite of political, commercial and cultural commitments in

92-471: The academic community and beyond. The journal was established in 1941, as The Far Eastern Quarterly , changing to its current title in September 1956. Before 2023, the journal was published by Cambridge University Press . Published by Duke University Press since 2023, under the guidance of its editorial board, it presents empirical and multidisciplinary work on Asia, spanning the arts, history, literature,

115-499: The areas studies approach in general emphasized contemporary social science theory, not the classic approaches of Oriental studies, which used philology and studied ancient civilizations. Cumings called that an "implicit Faustian bargain." In the 1960s, some members agitated for the AAS to express opposition to American involvement in Vietnam . AAS President William Theodore de Bary called for

138-527: The four areas of Asia: South Asia (SAC), Southeast Asia (SEAC), China and Inner Asia (CIAC) and Northeast Asia (NEAC). The councils were formed so that each area of Asia could have a proportionate voice in the Association and on the Board of Directors. In 1977, a Council of Conferences (COC) was established both to co-ordinate the regional conferences held by the Association and to discover ways to better serve

161-556: The level of proficiency he felt any serious student of China should be. Pritchard taught at Wayne State University in Detroit between 1939 and 1947. This stint was interrupted from 1942 to 1945 when he was a civilian analyst with military intelligence during the Second World War . He was in charge of a 15–20 person group that studied Japanese transportation networks in China and Japan. He

184-768: The major achievements of his career as the foundation of what was to become the Association for Asian Studies and the Journal of Asian Studies, and secondly the growth of oriental studies at the University of Arizona. He cited as his third most important achievement the publication of Anglo-Chinese Relations During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (a compacted version of his M.A. thesis), The Crucial Years of Early Anglo-Chinese Relations 1750–1800 (based in part on his doctoral thesis, 1936), sections written for The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature (1961),

207-520: The needs of Asia studies scholars in various parts of the United States. Area library organizations have been formed for South Asia ( CONSALD ), South East Asia , and East Asia (CEAL). World War II brought many academics into the government, some in the active military and some in the Office of War Information or the Office of Strategic Services , both of which were intelligence agencies which used academic disciplines and scholarly forms of analysis. When

230-486: The organization to take a position on the war that was "nonpolitical but not unconcerned." The active opposition to the war was left to the much smaller Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars . Each spring, the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) holds a four-day conference devoted to planned programs of scholarly papers, roundtable discussions, workshops, and panel sessions on a wide range of issues in research and teaching, and on Asian affairs in general. The 2013 Conference

253-405: The organization was renamed to the Association for Asian Studies to expand its scope to cover all areas of Asia, including South and Southeast Asia. Attendance grew from 200 for the organizational meeting in 1948 to 605 at the first annual meeting in 1949 and to 2,434 in 1963. The organization was further restructured in 1970, when four elective area Councils were formed, representative of each of

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276-720: The planning group, which was held at the Harvard Club in New York in 1928, and further meetings were held over the next decade. In 1936, the group began publishing the Far Eastern Bibliography . On 6 June 1941 the Far Eastern Association was formed and issued The Far Eastern Quarterly as its organ, with Cyrus Peake as Managing Editor. The Quarterly survived the war with the financial help that Kenneth W. Colgrove obtained from Northwestern University . After

299-700: The region and of events which already were hurrying them on into ever more intimate relations." Graves worked with Arthur W. Hummel, Sr. of the Oriental Division of the Library of Congress, the Institute of Pacific Relations , the Harvard-Yenching Institute , the American Oriental Society , as well as with colleges, universities, and museums. Twenty-eight people attended the first meeting of

322-561: The scholarship. He spent three years at the University of Oxford and was awarded his PhD in history in 1933. After completing his doctoral dissertation, Pritchard taught at Reed College in Portland, Oregon , from 1934 until transferring to Washington State in 1935, where he stayed until 1937. He studied Chinese at Columbia University and the University of Michigan between 1937 and 1939, but he later regretted that his Chinese did not reach

345-477: The social sciences, and cultural studies. In addition to research, current interest, and state-of-the-field articles, a large section of the journal is devoted to book reviews . The following are or have been editor-in-chief of the journal: From 1941 to 1991, the Association for Asian Studies published an annual Bibliography of Asian Studies as a supplement to the journal. Since 1991 the bibliography has only been available by separate subscription. The journal

368-425: The war was over, political scientists, historians, and social scientists continued to be concerned with contemporary affairs. The Far Eastern Association reflected an Area studies approach, geographically grounded division of labor, rather than by academic discipline, with the association subdivided into East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian Studies. (In the late 20th century, the field of Central and Inner Asia

391-474: The war, an organizational meeting of some 200 people was held at Columbia University on April 2, 1948, following the annual meeting of the American Oriental Society , to which many of the Far Eastern group belonged. The Constitution of the new group was drafted by Edwin O. Reischauer , Woodbridge Bingham , and Earl H. Pritchard . The Association's inaugural president was Arthur W. Hummel, Sr. In 1956,

414-455: Was added.) The Ford Foundation provided money and co-ordination to area studies centers, which, in turn, supported the AAS. Some members were critical. Bruce Cumings , writing in the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars , charged that for the AAS to participate in this way of funding scholarship on Asia led to confusing academic research and government intelligence work. He further argued that

437-493: Was born on June 5, 1907, in Pullman , Washington , where he spent his childhood on the farm of his father, Thomas Pritchard. He attended Washington State College and graduated with his B.A. in 1928. He then attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where completed his M.A. in 1929. Returning to Pullman in 1930, he applied for a Rhodes Scholarship and became the second student from Washington State College to win

460-509: Was held in San Diego; Philadelphia (March 27–30, 2014); Chicago (March 26–29, 2015); Seattle (March 31–April 3, 2016); Toronto (March 16–19, 2017); Washington, D.C. (March 22–25, 2018). The AAS administers and awards a number of prizes: Earl H. Pritchard Earl H. Pritchard (June 5, 1907 – May 9, 1995) was an American scholar of China and one of the founders of the Association for Asian Studies and served as its president. Pritchard

483-604: Was sweeping away the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek at the time. Pritchard never had an opportunity to visit the country he researched and taught about for most of his life, although he did travel to Japan in 1957. He moved to Tucson in Arizona to assume the chair of the Oriental Studies Department at the University of Arizona . He significantly built up the program until his retirement in 1972. He taught for several more years as professor emeritus. Pritchard

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506-668: Was the first recipient of the War Department 's highest award for intelligence service, the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal . After the end of the war, he was an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago from 1947 until 1962. He was disappointed when the Fulbright Fellowship that he earned in 1948 to go to China was cancelled because of the Communist revolution led by Mao Zedong that

529-552: Was the founder and editor of the Bulletin of Far Eastern Bibliography , which became the Far Eastern Quarterly before assuming its present form as the Journal of Asian Studies . He was one of the founders of the Far Eastern Association, which later became the Association for Asian Studies . Se served as the president from 1962 to 1963, vice president from 1961 to 1962, was a director in 1948–51, 1952–55, and 1961–64. He cited

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