Journal of Contemporary
Eastern Asia

A refereed journal devoted to the study of current political, social and economic trends in China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Mongolia.

ISSN 1684-629X 

URL: http://contemporary.eastasia.at

Email: journal[at]eastasia.at

Co-publisher: Cyber Emotions Research Center, YeungNam University, Korea

The editors welcome manuscripts based on original research or significant reexamination of existing literature. All manuscripts submitted should not have been published elsewhere and should have been proofread by a native speaker of English. We do, however, accept English translations of previously published works. Manuscripts should be in the range of 6,000 to 9,000 words. Accepted papers should follow the citation style recommended in The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. (University of Chicago Press).sd The author-date system is also acceptable. Only electronic submissions are accepted. The review process takes approximately two months.

Book reviews, reports on academic conferences and comparative papers on other Asian (especially Southeast Asian) countries are also welcome.

Email: journal[at]eastasia.at

Christian Schafferer,

Department of International Trade,

Overseas Chinese University, Taiwan

Email: c.schafferer[at]eastasia.at

Han Woo PARK,

Department of Communication & Information,

YeungNam University, Korea

Email: han.park[at]eastasia.at

Gerard Goggin

Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies,

University of Queensland, Australia

Michael Nelson

Faculty of Political Science,

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Alan Mycue,

Department of Applied English,
Overseas Chinese University, Taiwan

Gladstone A. Cuarteros,
Institute for Popular Democracy,
Philippines

Junhao Hong,
Department of Communication,
University at Buffalo, USA

Randy Kluver,
Institute for Pacific Asia,
Texas A&M University, USA

Bunnarith Meng,

East-West Center,

University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

Dominik Mierzejeski,
Faculty of International and
Political Studies, University of Lodz, Poland

Istvan Rado,
Department of Political Science,
University of Vienna, Austria

Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki,
Graduate School of International
Political Economy, University of
Tsukuba, Japan

Fumitaka Furuoka,
Universiti Malaysia Sabah,
Malaysia

Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce,
Department of Sociology,
The University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong

Current Issue

Vol. 10, No. 2 - September/October 2011

Wang Liqin

Is China an Economic Competitor of ASEAN?

A Chinese Perspective on Proposing, Cultivation and Implication of the CAFTA

(PDF)

Rupakjyoti Borah

Japan and India in the changing East Asian Equation

(PDF)

Otto F. von Feigenblatt

Coping with violence in the Thai-Cambodian border: The silence of the border

(PDF)

Joseph Tse-Hei Lee

From Tahrir Square to Tiananmen:

Why the Egyptians succeeded in 2011 but the Chinese failed in 1989?

(PDF)

Poowin Bunyavejchewin

Thailand four years after the coup: The struggle against the dissenters

(PDF)

Vol. 11, No. 1 - April/May  2012

Seong Eun Cho, Myunggoon Choi and Han Woo Park

Government-civic group conflicts and communication strategies:

A text analysis of TV debates on Korea’s Import of U.S. Beef

Poowin Bunyavejchewin

The Internet: An(other) agent that disseminates Japanese ‘soft power’ resources

Tham Jen Sern and Hasmah Zanuddin

Perception and social marketing of AIDS patients in Malaysian media:

Insufficient agenda setting?

Fumitaka Furuoka, Beatrice Lim, Catherine Jikunan and Lo May Chiun

Economics crisis and response:

A case study of Malaysia’s responses to the Asian Financial Crisis

Vol. 10, No. 1 - April/May 2011

Tung Chieh Tsai and Alexis Littlefield

China’s foreign policy:

Realpolitik or something new?

(PDF)

Kwon Ki-Seok

Are scientific capacities and industrial funding critical for universities’ knowledge-transfer activities? A case study of South Korea

(PDF)

Tsai Tung-Chieh, Hung Ming-Te and Tony Tai-Ting Liu

China’s foreign policy in Southeast Asia: Harmonious worldview and its impact on good neighbor diplomacy

(PDF)

George A. Barnett

Communication and the Evolution of SNS: Cultural Convergence Perspective

(PDF)

Yasushi Suzuki and S. M. Sohrab Uddin

What lessons can China learn from the Japanese prolonged financial slump?

(PDF)

Vol. 9, No. 1 - April/May 2010

Carol Soon

Politics as usual? De-equalizing rhetoric of political parties on the World Wide Web

(PDF)

Christian Schafferer

Consolidation of democracy and historical legacies: a case study of Taiwan

(PDF)

Joseph Tse-Hei Lee

China’s Quest for Security in the Early 21st Century: A Review

(PDF)

Vol. 8, No. 1 - March 2009

Timothy S. Rich

Can Democratic Consolidation Make a Country Less Secure? The Case of Taiwan

(PDF)

Dominik Mierzejewski 

'Not to Oppose but to Rethink'

The New Left Discourse on the Chinese Reforms

(PDF)

Chang Hui-Jung

Online Social Support: Which Posts Were Answered? 

(PDF)

Joseph Tse-Hei Lee

Transformation of Hong Kong After 1997:

A Review

(PDF)

Vol. 7, No. 1 - March 2008

Han Woo Park and Lee Yeon-ok

The Korean Presidential Election of 2007:

Five Years on from the "Internet Election"

(PDF)

Samuel C.Y. Ku

Politicial Democratization and Political Crisis

in Taiwan and the Philippines:

A Comparative Perspective

(PDF)

Istvan Rado

Thaksinomics in Light of the

Heterodox View on Economic Development

(PDF)

Vol. 9, No. 2 - September/October 2010

Yasushi Suzuki

A new hypothesis for explaining Japan’s prolonged financial slump: Mismanagement of audience effects

(PDF)

Shota Ogawa

Diaspora without Homeland: A Review

(PDF)

Otto F. von Feigenblatt

Exploring Human Security through Phenomenological Research: A Brief Review

(PDF)

Vol. 8, No. 2 - September 2009

Shigeto Sonoda

Emergence of Homogeneous Social Class?

Commonalities and Differences of the New Middle Class in Globalizing East Asia

(PDF)

Mellissa Severson-Hampton

European Mask: Faces of Japanese Imperialism

(PDF)

Da-Chi Liao, Herlin Chien and Huei-Chi Chang

Sources of the Rigid Constitution Myth in Taiwan and Its Impact

(PDF)

Marko M. Skoric, Clarice Sim, Han Teck Juan, Pam Fang

Podcasting and Politics in Singapore:

An Experimental Study of Medium Effects

(PDF)

Vol. 7, No. 2 - September 2008

Lee Dong-Yoon and Lee Jaehyon

Democratic Consolidation beyond Political Crisis: An Experience of Korea

(PDF)

Fumitaka Furuoka, Beatrice Lim Fui Yee, Roslinah Mahmud and Iwao Kato

A Paradigm Shift in Japan's Political Economy: From the Developmentalism to the Tourism based Country 

(PDF)

Chang Woo-young

The Cyber Balkanization and Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere in Korea

(PDF)

Bunnarith Meng

Pathways towards Citizen Participation:

Insights on Community Planning in Cambodian Cities

(PDF)