July 2023

‘Envisaging East Asia’: Hyun-ho Joo’s 2022 Wang Gungwu Prize-winning Article

Associate Professor Hyun-ho Joo is the winner of the Wang Gungwu Prize for the best Asian Studies Review article in 2022. In this piece, he gives an overview of his prize-winning article. The article can be read here and is available open-access to all readers.  On 28 November 1924, Sun Yatsen (1866–1925) made his famous […]

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Excavating the History of ‘Asia’ in Global Politics: An Interview with Ahmad Rizky M. Umar

Congratulations on being awarded an ASAA 2023 Postdoctoral Writing Grant! Can you tell us a bit about your current research? I currently have three research agendas that lie in the intersection between International Relations, Global History, and Asian Studies. First, I am currently transforming my PhD thesis into a book project. My thesis, which I

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Asia, Imperative! Reflections on ASAA’s Report on the Study of Asia

Robin Jeffrey reflects on the new ASAA report, Australia’s Asia Education Imperative, co-authored by Melissa Crouch and Edward Aspinall. Professor Jeffrey was an editor-author of Maximizing Australia’s Asia Knowledge (with John Fitzgerald, Kama Maclean and Tessa Morris-Suzuki), the ASAA’s 2002 report on the condition of Asian studies. Australia’s Asia Education Imperative reflects the scholarly passion

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