De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies

11/11/2025

The latest issue of the European Journal of East Asian Studies (EJEA) is out now!

More details here: https://brill.com/view/journals/ejea/24/3/ejea.24.issue-3.xml

Volume 24 (2025): Issue 3 (Nov 2025): Special Issue: From Crisis to Connectivity: The Historical Evolution of Regional Integration in East and Southeast Asia

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In Memoriam
Professor T.G. (Terry) McGee (1936–2023)
Pages: 221–222

From Crisis to Connectivity
The Historical Evolution of Regionalism and Economic Integration in East and Southeast Asia
Author: Pietro P. Masina
Pages: 223–246

Insights into Asian Integration
What Does Empirical Literature Reveal?
Authors: Jamshaid ur Rehman, Tasneem Zafar, and Muhammad Nadeem Javaid
Pages: 247–284

Tracing Global Value Chains in the RCEP Domain
Participation, Position and Asymmetric Value Capture
Author: Isha Chawla
Pages: 285–319

Rethinking Partnerships
Assessing ASEAN’s Changing Role in Global and Regional Value Chains
Author: Ewa Cieślik
Pages: 320–350

RCEP versus CPTPP
What Does It Mean for Business?
Authors: Patrick Ziltener and Ranti Yulia Wardani
Pages: 351–375

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership as an Economic Architecture for the Asia-Pacific Amid Geopolitical Uncertainty
Authors: Ranti Yulia Wardani, Nawalage S. Cooray, and Astri Hanna Waruwu
Pages: 376–401

RCEP as a Catalyst for ASEAN Integration and a Model for Global Trade Cooperation
Authors: Harsh Mahasethand Sarrah Singapurwala
Pages: 402–421

Reform and Nation-Building: Essays on Socio-Political Transformation in Malaysia, by Sharifah Munirah Alatas
Author: Michele Farina
Pages: 423–425

Back matter
Pages: 427–429

06/11/2025

Announcing the Winners of the 2025 IJTS Research Article Competition!

After months of careful review and spirited discussion, the International Journal of Taiwan Studies (IJTS) is delighted to unveil the winners of the 2025 IJTS Research Article Competition, generously sponsored by the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) — two exceptional scholars whose work exemplifies innovation, depth, and originality in Taiwan Studies.

* Arts & Humanities Category
Chao-Hsuan Peng – “Revisiting the Taiwanese Debate on ‘Civil Society’ (1986–1987), or Outline of an Intellectual History of Taiwan’s Democratisation”

* Social Sciences Category
Yi-Yu Lai – “Tracing Roots, Charting Routes: Indigenous Taiwanese Encounters on Philippine Soil and the Politics of Archipelagic Belonging”

Warmest congratulations to Mr Peng and Mr Lai for their outstanding achievements! Each winner will receive a £300 prize and a certificate of recognition, and their articles will be published in IJTS following peer review and revision.

We also extend our heartfelt thanks to all the scholars who entered the 2025 competition. The judging panel was deeply impressed by the creativity, insight, and rigour of the submissions — a testament to the vibrancy of the Taiwan Studies field. Selected entries will be considered for publication in upcoming issues of IJTS.

* About Our Winners
Chao-Hsuan Peng is a Contractual PhD Candidate at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. His research examines the role of political ideas, the dissident press, and social movements in Taiwan’s democratisation. He is currently preparing a dissertation on the student movements of 1980s Taiwan.

Yi-Yu Lai is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His research explores Indigenous politics, conflict, and transborder relations between Taiwanese and Philippine Indigenous groups, focusing on how mobility, activism, and conflict reconfigure everyday life and political belonging.

* The International Journal of Taiwan Studies celebrates the passion and scholarly excellence of these emerging voices, whose work continues to broaden and enrich the global conversation on Taiwan and its place in the world.

www.brill.com/IJTS

03/11/2025

Last week, we attended the launch of the inaugural issue of the journal “Intercultural Dialogue,” edited by Prof. Liu Yue.

www.brill.com/ICDG

The event was held at the University Foundation in Brussels and brought together ambassadors, professors, Members of the European Parliament, researchers, publishers, and journalists, who engaged in lively discussions on China–Europe relations, cultural exchange, language, and philosophy.

“Intercultural Dialogue” is a journal dedicated to exploring the history, development, and current trends in language and cultural studies, with a primary focus on the interconnections and interactions between overseas Chinese Studies and foreign studies in China. It aims to bridge the gap between previously distinct research communities, facilitate deeper communication and understanding across diverse cultural and academic backgrounds, and ultimately enrich the discourse in intercultural studies by fostering connections between these groups.

Thanks to the generous support of colleagues at Xiamen University, the journal will be published in Diamond Open Access — freely available online, with no fees for authors.

We look forward to seeing the journal grow under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief Prof. Liu Yue and Managing Editor Dr. Ludovica Lena.

The inaugural issue will be published in the coming months. Stay tuned!

24/10/2025

22/10/2025

Listen to Jane Leung Larson and Robert L. Worden's interview on how the Open Access publication "A Chinese Reformer in Exile" came to be on our podcast channel ‘Brill on the Wire’!

Listen to the full interview: https://newbooksnetwork.com/a-chinese-reformer-in-exile

"A Chinese Reformer in Exile" is an encyclopaedic reference work documenting the exile years of imperial China’s most famous reformer, Kang Youwei, and the political organization he mobilized in North America and worldwide to transform China’s autocratic empire into a constitutional monarchy.

Download the book for free here: https://brill.com/display/title/70307?contents=toc-130902

21/10/2025

Our author Professor Susan Huang gave a lecture at the National University of Singapore as the fourth FASS Distinguished Speaker in Buddhist Studies, introducing her recent book:
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21/10/2025

21/10/2025

We are delighted to announce the publication of “Winners and Losers in a World of Wind and Dust: Students and Courtesans in Chinese Vernacular Literature of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries" by Stephen H. West and Wilt Idema.

Love affairs of the young men from eminent families and the courtesans who were trained to entertain (and to fleece) them were a popular theme in the Chinese vernacular literature of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The stories of these happy and disastrous affairs were popular with all genres of performative literature. This volume offers a representative selection of texts on the grandeur et misère of the working girls and their Chinese and Jurchen patrons. Alongside popular works by famous playwrights such as Guan Hanqing and Shi Junbao, This volume also offers a wide range of scintillating texts by lesser known and anonymous authors.

Find more details about the book here: https://brill.com/display/title/72577

20/10/2025

Today we were delighted to welcome our publishing partners from Fudan University Press to our Leiden office. Our editors enjoyed giving them a tour and spending a pleasant morning in insightful conversation.

We look forward to further developing this collaboration in the years ahead and developing meaningful new projects!

20/10/2025

The latest issue of the Journal of Central Asian History is out now!

More details here: https://brill.com/view/journals/jcah/4/2/jcah.4.issue-2.xml

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[OPEN ACCESS]
From Ṭukhāristān to China: Why Did the Christian Priest Jingjing 景净/Adam Translate a Buddhist Sūtra in 788?
Author: Zhidong Zhang

Alexander Samoilovich and His Travel Diaries (1906–1907)
Part One: Russian Turkestan
Authors: Ulfat Abdurasulov and Paolo Sartori
Pages: 213–273

Nobility across the Centuries: Remarks on Etienne de la Vaissière’s Asie Centrale 300–850
Author: Jürgen Paul

[OPEN ACCESS]
Silk Roads before the Qarakhanids: Étienne de la Vaissière’s Asie centrale
Author: Dilnoza Duturaeva

Central Asia as the Vulture Flies: Reflections on "Asie centrale 300–850: Des routes et des royaumes" by Étienne de La Vaissière (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024)
Author: Meghan Howard Masang

A Central Asian Conceptual Landscape: a Short Answer to Howard Masang, Duturaeva, and Paul
Author: Étienne de la Vaissière

17/10/2025