The Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities (JOSAH) is the flagship publication of the Australian Society for Asian Humanities and has been issued continuously since 1960. It is the oldest journal on Asia currently published in Australia.
E-texts are available through INFORMIT while printed copies can be obtained by email to josaheditor@sydney.edu.au. Until vol. 51 (2019), its title was JOSA: Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia.
Current Issue
Editor’s Introduction
Adrian Vickers
The University of Sydney
This current issue of the Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities engages with a range of Asian cultural and historical experiences, some of which are grounded in Australia. The historical breadth of this collection is matched by important articles that deal with contemporary issues. Mina Roces’s A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture goes beyond the Philippines and Italy in its scope, since the topic of labour migration and global class structures around care work affect almost all countries. These experiences intersect and contrast with the case study from
Shenzhen presented by Junmin Liu. Once again, the Australian Society for Asian Humanities’ Emerging Scholars award has highlighted important new research topics with a transnational dimension. These topics complement the studies of Ro Jin and The Story of the Stone as new interpretations of older topics. The papers in this issue are linked by forms of representation. These are representations in terms of the ways that paintings, architecture, literature and forms of commemoration present perceptions and world experiences. They are also representations in terms of the articulation of different positions in relation to legal regimes and government-based attempts to control relationships. All these are issues at the heart of our understanding of
the humanities as human experience