Editor: Linda Cooke Johnson, Michigan State University
Studies on Asia - a new electronic journal sponsored by the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs and published by the Asian Studies Center at Michigan State University. Studies on Asia welcomes manuscripts on any and all aspects of Asia, past and present, and including translations, poetry, prose, and pedagogy. Studies on Asia will be published bianually in May/June and December/ January. Back issues will remain online for three years, after which they will be archived electronically.
Web Address: http://www.isp.msu.edu/studiesonasia/
E-mail: soa@msu.edu
All manuscripts selected for publication will be peer-reviewed by two reviewers from the fields in question as selected by the MCAA Advisory Board. Copyright will be held jointly by the author and the journal for the duration of the period of publication (six months), after which all rights will revert to the author.
Style sheet: Manuscripts should be no longer than 7,000-7,500 words (exclusive of footnotes) in MS Word 97/98 or 2000. Submissions should be in English, be of interset to a wide readership, and should present original research, composition, or offer a translation of something not previously avaialble in English. Manuscripts should meet the professional standards of academic journals and make a significant contribution to the field to which the article pertains. Manuscripts that have been published elsewhere or are being considered for publication will not be considered.
Everything, including footnotes should be double-spaced. The manuscript should be submitted by e-mail attachment to Professor Linda Cooke Johnson, editor, with an accompanying cover letter stating your affiliation and status (i.e. graduate student, assistant professor, independent scholar) to soa@msu.edu.
Footnotes should be placed at the bottom of each page using the footnote function included in Microsoft Word and should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style standard format. They should be limited to citations rather than commentaries. Photographs and visual materials are welcome, but all permissions for use of such materials are the responsibility of the author and must be received in advance of publication. Permission is required in advance of republication or replication of any article or work of fiction, poetry or translation or any part of such an article published in Studies on Asia. (Authors, however, will be free to republish their own material as they see fit.)
Authors can expect evaluation reports within three months, or earlier if the manuscript is not accepted for publication.
Parks Coble, [Past President of MCAA], University of Nebraska (Modern China )
Roberta Gumport, University of Illinois , Outreach, (Education, pedagogy)
Arjun Guneratne, South Asia ,
Roy Hanashiro, [MCAA Executive Secretary], University of Michigan , Flint ( Japan )
John Hartman, Northern Illinois University ( Southeast Asia )
Jacquetta Hill, [MCAA Past-President] University of Illinois ( Southeast Asia )
James Huffman, [MCAA President], Wittenberg College ( Japan )
Linda Cooke Johnson [MCAA Vice President] Michigan State University
Man Bun Kwan, University of Cincinnati ( China and Inner Asia )
Michael Lewis, Michigan State University ( Japan , East Asia )
Dian Murray, Notre Dame University ( China and Inner Asia )
Aprarjita Sagar [MCAA President] South Asia
Yasuko Ito Watt, Indiana University [COC Representative], ( Japan )