Critical Asian Studies (launched in 1968 as the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarly articles and other materials that challenge the accepted formulas for understanding the Asia and Pacific regions, the world, and ourselves.
Current Issue: Vol. 45, No. 2 (June 2013)
Dilemmas of Parliamentary Communism:
The Rise and Fall of the Left in West Bengal
– Subho Basu and Auritro Majumder
Vigilantism and Violence in Decentralized Indonesia:
The Case of Lombok – Adam Tyson
Encountering Asia: Narratives of Filipino Medical Workers
on Caring for Other Asians – Megha Amrith
Messages from Long Tan, Vietnam:
Memorialization, Reconciliation, and Historical Justice
– William Logan and Andrea Witcomb
LECTURE
FREE
Toward Overcoming Korea's Division System through
Civic Participation – Paik Nak-chung
REVIEW ESSAYS
Two Giant Steps in the Scholarship on the First Indochina War
– David Hunt
Filiation, Continuous and Discontinuous: Two Recent Anthropological Approaches to North Korea – Hoon Song
BOOK REVIEW
The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson
– Reviewed by Ravi Arvind Palat
The second highest-ranked area studies journal covering the whole of Asia,
according to the 2010 Impact Factor ranking published by Thomson Reuters.
(© 2011 Thomson Reuters, 2010 Journal Citation Reports™)
SSCI Impact Factor: 0.733.