Monthly Archives: September 2020
Issue 5 for 2020 published
Issue number 5 of Volume 50 of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This is the final issue in the Journal’s 50th year anniversary and the third of three special issues in … Continue reading
Australian Research Leaders
The Australian newspaper has used Google Scholar citation data to calculate the top Australian-based researchers in 2019 for many academic fields. Congratulations to JCA editorial Board member Vedi Hadiz, of Melbourne University, who was ranked highest in Asian Studies and … Continue reading
15,000 views
The first JCA paper to achieve 15,000 electronic views is “Who Governs and How? Non-State Actors and Transnational Governance in Southeast Asia” is by Shaun Breslin and Helen E. S. Nesadurai and was published in Volume 48, No. 2, 2018. … Continue reading
Virtual Special Issues
JCA’s 50th anniversary celebrations include a three-part virtual collection that comprises a selection of articles from the Journal over its history.These remain available until the end of 2020 and all articles may be downloaded for free. Part I, Imperialism and … Continue reading
Maoism and religion
Maoism and Grassroots Religion: The Communist Revolution and the Reinvention of Religious Life in China by Xiaoxuan Wang and published by Oxford University Press is reviewed for JCA by Zhixi Wang of the College of Liberal Arts, Shantou University, China. … Continue reading
Crisis and political economy
Bristol University Press and Policy Press have created a collection of articles which examine economic crises and their effects on policy, poverty and social justice. All of the articles in this collection are free to read until 31 October. The collection features over 50 articles from … Continue reading
Mass Reporting in China
“The Eyes and Ears of the Authoritarian Regime: Mass Reporting in China” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2020.1813790) is a new article at JCA by Jue Jiang of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, School of Law, New York University. The abstract for the paper states: … Continue reading
War of Terror in Praetorian Pakistan
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar of the National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University , Islamabad, Pakistan, has a new Commentary with JCA. It is “The War of Terror in Praetorian Pakistan: The Emergence and Struggle of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement” (DOI: … Continue reading
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