''Modern Asian Studies'' is a bimonthly

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in the field of

Asian studies Asian studies is the term used usually in North America and Australia for what in Europe is known as Oriental studies. The field is concerned with the Asian people, their cultures, languages, history and politics. Within the Asian sphere, Asian ...

, published by

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. The journal was established in 1967 by the

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s of the

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and the Committee of Directors at the Centre of South Asian Studies (CSAS), a joint initiative among

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, and

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. The journal covers the

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, and culture of modern Asia. Since 2021, the journal has been co-edited by Johan Elverskog, (

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), Sumit Guha, A. Azfar Moin, and

Robert M. Oppenheim Robert Matthew Oppenheim is an American scholar of Korean studies. He is a professor of Asian studies and anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Oppenheim majored in anthropology at Princeton University, graduating in 1991. He received ...

(all at the

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). The previous editor was Norbert Peabody (

History

In 1947, the Scarbrough Commission asserted that knowledge of Asian countries needed to be granted a permanent place in British academia. The commission, in its report, believed that knowledge of the histories, cultures, and languages of Asia were "quite inadequate for Britain's national purposes."

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, the second Director of the

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(SOAS), requested state funding to implement the commission's recommendations, which began in 1948. SOAS planned to appoint 18 professors, 35 readers, and 114 lectures over a five-year time period. The launching of an academic journal in 1967 represented the culmination of these efforts. The journal nowadays publishes monographic essays on a wide range of topics that are supported with empirical data. It is one of the leading journals in the field and has long been considered the flagship

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journal of

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According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2018

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of 0.539.

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