The Journal of Asian History, founded 1967 and published by Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, was formerly edited (vols. 1-45) by Denis Sinor (1916-2011, Indiana University, Bloomington), from 2012-2014 (vols. 46-48) by Roderich Ptak (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München) and Claudius C. Müller (Hong Kong), from 2015-2023 (vols. 49-57) by Dorothee Schaab-Hanke (OSTASIEN Verlag, Gossenberg) and Achim Mittag (Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen). Issues no. 58 (2024) and 59 (2025) were edited by Dorothee Schaab-Hanke and Achim Mittag together with Sebastian Eicher.

Starting from Volume 60 (2026), the Journal of Asian History [abbreviated: JAH] is edited by Profs. Sebastian Eicher (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia) and Elke Papelitzky (University of Oslo, Oslo).

Submissions of articles should be sent to Sebastian Eicher and Elke Papelitzky. For reviews, please contact our review editor Prof. Li Yiwen (City University of Hong Kong).

Presently, this journal appears once a year.

ISSN: 0021-910X

This journal has been approved as a peer reviewed  journal according to the criteria of European Reference Index for the Humanities ERIH in 2007. Besides, the journal is contained in the Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) lists imported from the Clarivate Analytics (previously Thomson Reuters) website.

The Journal’s profile

The Journal of Asian History is dedicated to the study of Asia’s past in all its geographical breadth and historical depth. Its scope extends across the Asian continent—from South and Southeast Asia to East Asia, Central and Inner Asia, and Northeast Asia—and encompasses all periods up to approximately 1900.

The journal publishes original research grounded in close and detailed engagement with primary sources and addressing clearly defined historical questions, including cultural, political, intellectual, and literary history. It welcomes contributions that combine rigorous philological or archival work with broader interpretive perspectives, which can take the shape of finely grained case studies and comparative or transnational approaches.

The Journal of Asian History seeks to provide a forum for engaging with larger, still underexplored questions in Asian history. Contributors are therefore invited to write not only for specialists in their field but also for a wider scholarly readership. Committed to intellectual diversity and international exchange, the journal welcomes submissions from scholars around the world.

The journal publishes contributions in English and is peer-reviewed.

Languages

The Journal publishes contributions in English.

Peer-Reviewing Procedure

Article manuscripts submitted to the editors will be sent to external peers.

On receiving a submitted article manuscript, the editors communicate among each other and discuss whether it seems to them suitable for publication in the Journal in terms of its overall quality, its temporal focus, methodological approach and basic formal requirements. Only then the submitted text will be be sent out for peer review. Peer-reviewers are particularly asked to provide comments about how to further improve the paper. In case of a distinctly disapproving opinion of one peer, the editors may consult one or two further reviewers in behalf of their opinion before taking a final decision.

Submitting Articles

All manuscripts should be submitted in electronic form both as a Word file and a PDF with tables, graphs and illustrations in black and white submitted separately in JPG or TIF format. Authors are expected to clear copyright permissions for all illustrations, graphs, etc.

The ideal length of a paper is 20–30 pages (c. 8,000–14,000 words). Papers should include a separate list of cited works at the end. Please send us an abstract (150–200 words) and a brief academic CV including your academic affiliation and postal address accompanying your submission. For further details, please refer to the journal’s style sheet [PDF / MS Word]. We do not expect articles to follow all aspects of the style sheet at first submission, but we ask that your article fulfils the following criteria: .

1) All translations from primary sources into English are followed by their original text
2) The article has an alphabetically sorted bibliography
3) The bibliography should include Asian characters for authors and titles of Asian-language works. Include the original title and not a translation of the titles cited in the bibliography.
4) The article should be fully anonymized. That means that you should remove your name and acknowledgements, as well as any other elements that might identify you `
5) Please send a separate title page that states your name, affiliation, and includes any acknowledgements
6) Include a statement about your usage of AI and LLMs. Text written by generative AI does not fulfill the criteria for authorship, but we acknowledge that such usage for language revision can be an important tool especially for non-native speakers of English.

On receipt of the finalized manuscript, it will be subjected to careful editing, both in terms of content and language. All texts will be proofread by a native speaker.

Submitting Reviews

Besides actively recruiting reviewers at our end, we encourage other scholars to contribute reviews as well. Please contact our review editor Prof. Li Yiwen if you wish to submit a book review, informing us of your academic qualifications, if these are not yet known to the editors. Provided the proposed book meets the journal’s profile, we will procure a review copy of it. Please make sure to provide us with a mailing address. Reviews should not surpass a length of c. 1,500 words. For further details, please refer to the journal’s style sheet [PDF / MS Word]. Publishers who wish to have a book reviewed are invited to contact our review editor as well, however, we do not guarantee that books submitted will be reviewed in our Journal.