| has gloss | eng: The Journal of Asian Studies (JAS) is a quarterly journal published by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), a scholarly, non-profit organization which brings together the shared interest of scholars in Asian studies. The journal was first issued in November 1941, under the title The Far Eastern Quarterly, which changed to JAS September 1956. Editorship of the journal changes periodically. Recent editors of the journal have been: David D. Buck (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) from 1990-1994; Anand A. Yang (University of Utah) from 1995-2000; Ann Waltner (University of Minnesota) from 2001-2004, and Kenneth M. George (University of Wisconsin–Madison), 2005-2008. The current editor is Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California-Irvine), from 2008-2012. In addition to the editor, there are associate editors each editor (or sometimes two in cooperation) in charge of one of the following geographic regions: China, Inner Asia, Japan, Korea, South Asia and Southeast Asia. |
