Information for Authors

The Asia Center Publications Program welcomes submissions of original scholarly studies on both premodern and modern Asia in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. Traditionally, most of the publications have involved China, Japan, or Korea. Currently, works that touch on Southeast Asia, as well as works on Asia in transnational perspective, will also be considered.

The Publications Program currently publishes books in three series: the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series, the Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, and the Harvard Contemporary China Series. These series feature books by individual authors and occasionally multi-authored edited volumes. Edited and conference volumes will be considered for publication only if the editors of the volume provide a subsidy sufficient to cover the costs of editing and production. The Publications Program will consider translations of literary works only if the translation is embedded within a work of scholarly analysis. Finally, we welcome proposals for textbooks on Asian languages and collections of readings intended for classroom.