Asian Affairs is the RSAA’s quarterly journal. It addresses social, political, and historical subjects at the interface between scholarship, learned interest, journalism and personal experience. It is held by most major libraries globally. It is free in print and online to members of the RSAA, who also have free access to the entire back catalogue.
Asian Affairs
About the Journal
Asian Affairs has been published continuously since 1914 (originally as the Journal of the Central Asian Society, and from 1931 to 1969 as the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society). In addition to its extensively cited commentary and original research articles, it carries an extensive and widely read book review section.
The Editor of Asian Affairs is supported by and accountable to an Editorial Board composed of subject-matter and publishing experts.
Individual articles and entire issues can be purchased and downloaded from our publisher, Taylor & Francis.
EDITOR
Dr Bill Hayton
EDITORIAL BOARD
Gerald Dorey, Chairman
Professor Kerry Brown
Dr William Crawley
Dr Hildegard Diemberger
Sophie Ibbotson
Professor Neeti Nair
Dr Frances Pinter
Professor Nalanda Roy
Barney Smith CMG
Dr David Taylor
INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Prof Luca Anceschi
University of Glasgow
Prof Masooda Bano
University of Oxford
Prof Michele Commercio
University of Vermont
Prof Alexander Cooley
Columbia University
Dr Bhavna Davé
School of Oriental and African Studies
Dr James M Dorsey
Nat’l University of Singapore
Prof Dinissa Duvanova
Lehigh University
Dr Sharmistha Gooptu
South Asian History and Culture
Prof Brent Hierman
Virginia Military Institute
Prof Wang Hui
Tsinghua University
Prof You Ji
Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University
Assoc Prof Costas Laoutides
Deakin University
Farhad Mamshai
University of Sulaimani
Prof Erik Mobrand
Seoul National University
Prof Yoon Ah Oh
Seoul National University
Dr Amit Ranjan
National University of Singapore
Asst Prof Sanjeev Routray
Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Assoc Prof Hélène Thibault
Nazarbaev University
Prof Muhammad Waseem
Lahore University of Management Sciences
