Journal of American-East Asian Relations (JAEAR), according to its website, is a "peer-reviewed quarterly journal of interdisciplinary historical, cross-cultural, and social science scholarship from all parts of the world," which began publication in 1992. The scope includes diplomatic, economic, security, and cultural relations, as well as Asian-American history. Geographical coverage includes the United States, Canada, other countries in the Americas, and East Asia, typically China, Japan, and Korea, but also the Pacific area, Australasia, Southeast Asia, and the Russian Far East.
JAEAR is indexed and abstracted in more than thirty services.
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Origins and history
Although JAEAR published its first issue in 1992, its roots date from the late 1960s, when many Americans were concerned about their country's engagement in Vietnam. Critical scholars of Asia, such as those in the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars
The Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) was founded in 1968 by a group of graduate students and younger faculty as part of the opposition to the American participation in the Vietnam War. They proposed a "radical critique of the assumptio ...
, charged that their profession had failed its intellectual duties and that Asianists had slighted their political responsibilities. In partial response, the American Historical Association
The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional s ...
set up a Committee on American-East Asian Relations. The chair was Ernest R. May
Ernest Richard May (November 19, 1928 – June 1, 2009) was an American historian of international relations, whose 14 published books include analyses of American involvement in World War I and the causes of the Fall of France during World War ...
, a diplomatic historian. Other members were John Fairbank, a China scholar, also at Harvard, whose goal as early as the 1930s had been to educate the American public about the “Far Eastern Crisis,” and Dorothy Borg, an Independent Scholar who had worked for the Institute of Pacific Relations
The Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) was an international NGO established in 1925 to provide a forum for discussion of problems and relations between nations of the Pacific Rim. The International Secretariat, the center of most IPR activity o ...
in the 1940s. Younger members of the Committee included Akira Iriye
is a historian of diplomatic history, international, and transnational history. He taught at University of Chicago and Harvard University until his retirement in 2005.
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and James C. Thomson, Jr., students of Fairbank and May, and Warren I. Cohen, then at Michigan State University. The Committee by 1990 had become inactive but the number of scholars in the field increased.
Anthony Cheung, who had been Iriye’s graduate student at University of Chicago
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but dropped out to work at University of Chicago Press
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, then founded an independent publishing house in Chicago, Imprint Publications. Cheung convinced Iriye, Cohen, and May that the field could support a journal to carry on the work of the Committee. JAEAR also received early support from Frank Gibney
Frank Bray Gibney (September 21, 1924 – April 9, 2006) was an American journalist, editor, writer and scholar. He learned Japanese while in the American Navy during World War II, then was stationed in Japan. As a journalist in Tokyo, he wrote ''F ...
, who established the Pacific Basin Institute
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in Claremont, California. The first issue appeared in spring 1992.
In 2012, Brill Publishers, headquartered in Leiden
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bought JAEAR from Imprint Publications. JAEAR is now published both in hard copy and online, and more than thirty services index or abstract the journal.[
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Mission and significance
JAEAR first appeared at a time when scholars in American-East Asian relations were confident that their field was on the "cutting edge." Ernest R. May, who would become a sponsor of the journal, told the first conference of the Committee on American-East Asian Relations in 1971 that “politically and economically Americans and Asians have become almost as interdependent as Americans and Europeans,” but “do not, however have any understanding of one another comparable to the understanding – faulty though it often is – between Americans and Europeans.” Warren I. Cohen, another who would become an early sponsor, in his 1985 address as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) was founded in order to “promote excellence in research and teaching of American foreign relations history and to facilitate professional collaboration among scholars and students ...
touted the field of American-East Asian relations as a model and insisted that it was on was on the “cutting edge” of historical scholarship.
Early volumes included theme issues on a wide range of topics and in a wide range of disciplines.[
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See also
* East Asia–United States relations
Notes
References and further reading
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* {{cite book , editor1-last = May, editor1-first = Ernest R. , editor2-last=Thomson , editor2-first=James C., Jr. , year = 1972 , title = American-East Asian Relations: A Survey , publisher = Harvard University Press, location = Cambridge
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