Global Oriental is an independent trade publishing company in Dorset, United Kingdom. Dorset ( (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located It is the publisher of scholarly books on Japan and East Asia in fields such as History, Martial Arts, Arts and Literature. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.
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Advisory Group
The publisher's booklist has developed from connections to a world-wide circle of scholars and researchers in the academic community and beyond. The current editorial Advisory Group includes:
- Ian Nish, Emeritus Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science. Ian Hill Nish, CBE is a British academic a specialist in Japanese studies and Emeritus Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political The London School of Economics and Political Science, more commonly referred to as The London School of Economics or LSE, is a specialist college of the
- James E. Hoare, Research Fellow at University of London and University of Sheffield, specialist in Japanese and Korean Affairs, past President of the British Association for Korean Studies, and former British Chargé d'affaires in Pyongyang, North Korea. James Edward Hoare (1948-) is a British academic specializing in Chinese and Korean studies and a career diplomat in the British Foreign Office The University of London is a university based primarily in London, England, UK. The University of Sheffield is a research University, located in Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. Pyongyang (pʰjʌŋjaŋ is the Capital and largest City of North Korea, located on the Taedong River, at. North Korea is the commonly used short form name for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or DPRK) a State located in East Asia,
- Peter O'Connor, Professor, Musashino University, Tokyo
- Hugh Cortazzi, Formerly British Ambassador to Japan and and former Chairman of the Japan Society. is an institution of higher education located in Nishitōkyō Tokyo. Sir Arthur Henry Hugh Cortazzi GCMG (May 2 1924-) is a British knight and diplomat
Inner Asia Journal
In 2005, Global Oriental formally took over publication of Inner Asia, the journal of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU) at the University of Cambridge. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the
MIASU was founded in 1986 as a group within the Department of Social Anthropology to promote research and teaching relating to Mongolia and Inner Asia on an inter-disciplinary basis. The unit aims to promote and encourage study of this important region and to provide training and support for research to all those concerned with its understanding. MIASU is currently one of the very few research-oriented forums in the world in which scholars can address the contemporary and historical problems of the region. The unit is also concerned with how "Inner Asia" as an object of study is being reconfigured, from the late-nineteenth century discourse of orientalism to contemporary critical studies of economic and cultural transformation.
Inner Asia is published twice yearly and edited by the MIASU’s principal scholars, Caroline Humphrey and David Sneath, along with Uradyn E. Bulag of City University of New York. The City University of New York (CUNY Acronym ˈkjuːni is the public University system of New York City.
Specialized subjects
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