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Cornell East Asia Series

Housed in the East Asia Program, the Cornell East Asia Series is an internationally known, award-winning scholarly imprint of Cornell University Press. CEAS publishes on subjects relating to East Asia, covering such topics as history, literature, culture and society, and translations of literary works. The series produces scholarly monographs, specialized textbooks, and well-integrated edited volumes on China, Japan, and Korea (North and South). We invite authors to submit scholarly monographs, translations of literature, and significant work of literary criticism, social analysis, specialized textbooks, well-integrated volumes of essays. CEAS actively seeks works on translations of modern Japanese poetry. CEAS brings quality scholarship and unique research by authors worldwide to an academic audience and general readers. 

Since its inception in 1973 as a venue for publishing papers in the East Asia Program, the Series has grown into its current status as a publisher with a reputation for quality and specialized academic titles. More than 200 volumes have been published to date, with hundreds of titles in print and dozens of titles available digitally for free through the Cornell University Library.

Contact

For all publication matters, please contact the managing editor at ceas@cornell.edu.


Browse CEAS Titles 

Christopher Rea
Hoaxes! Jokes! Farces and fun! China’s Chaplin introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880–1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous decades of the pre-Mao era. Xu was a…
Takako Takahashi
Translator: Britten Dean The Wasteland explores the psychology of the modern Japanese woman and her urge to realize an inner self of latent sexuality, long suppressed in Japan’s male-…
Amy McNair
Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings is the first complete translation of the well-known document produced at the court of Emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1125). Dated to 1120, the Catalogue is…
Lu Yan
Labor Activism and Colonial Governance in Hong Kong chronicles a long neglected yet formative social and political movement in Hong Kong between the 1930s and 1950s. Drawing upon a range of British…
Jooyeon Rhee
Jooyeon Rhee provides an innovative and compelling analysis of gendered representations of nation and modernity in early twentieth-century Korean novels. By investigating the transformation of the…
Jeff E. Long
A cultural history of writer and literary critic Hayashi Fusa's (1903–75) tenkō experience, Stories from the Samurai Fringe examines Hayashi's tenkō (ideological conversion) through a close reading…
Takako Lento
Editor and Translator: Takako Lento  Pioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry breaks new ground in the study and appreciation of modern Japanese poetry. It assembles the work of four major…
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Editor: Michael J. Pettid A new collection of translations of Korean fiction from the colonial period of the early twentieth century. The contents will introduce readers to works written from a…
Morio Kita
Translator: Masako Inamoto T his volume introduces short stories and essays by Kita Morio (1927-2011), one of the most significant, prolific, and beloved postwar writers in Japan. Also known by…
Xiaojia Hou
This is the first monograph in English on how China's agricultural collectivization began. In 1953, the Chinese Communist Party launched a system of agricultural collectivization to lean the…
View current and forthcoming CEAS titles on the Cornell University Press website.

 

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Submissions

We invite authors to submit scholarly monographs, translations of literature and poetry, specialized textbooks, and well-integrated volumes of essays on the languages and cultures of East Asia. We are particularly interested in the following subjects:

  • Modern Japanese poetry
  • Early Chinese literature
  • Korean literature and culture
  • Taiwan studies
  • Disability studies
  • East Asian religions
  • Gender studies
  • Japanese colonies
  • Transnational and interdisciplinary works

Visit Cornell Press for submission guidelines. You can also contact the CEAS editor, Alexis Shimon, to discuss your project before submitting a formal proposal.

If a manuscript is suitable for our series, it will be sent for peer review. Due to the volume of submissions received and the time necessary to search for a suitable reviewer, we ask for your patience with the review process.

If your manuscript contains copyrighted material, please be prepared to show that permission has been obtained for its use. If you wish to submit a translation of a copyrighted text, please confirm that the rights are available, and be prepared to obtain approval from both the author and the original publisher. CEAS regrets that we are unable to compensate the author for any permission fees incurred, nor can we offer advances to either the original author or the translator.

Our mailbox can receive files up to 20 MB If your file exceeds this limit, please adjust or let us know by contacting ceas@cornell.edu.

Thank you for your interest in publishing with Cornell East Asia Series.