The journal publishes empirical and multidisciplinary work on Asia and Pacific, spanning the history, literature, the social sciences, politics and cultural studies.

Experts around the world turn to the journal for the latest in-depth scholarship on Asia’s past and present, for its extensive book reviews, on established and emerging topics. With coverage reaching from South and Southeast Asia to China, Inner Asia, and Northeast Asia, the Journal of Asia and Pacific Studies welcomes broad comparative and transnational studies as well as essays emanating from fine-grained historical, cultural, political, and literary research and interpretation.