The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung) is now accepting submissions, in either English or German, for edition 41, which is scheduled for publication in winter 2018. All papers submitted will undergo double-blind peer review.

The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (BJOAF) has been published since 1978 by the Faculty of East Asian Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. It serves as an international forum for academic publications on East Asian research, with individual research papers making up the larger part of the journal.

To get an idea of the scope of topics and research approaches that have received coverage in the Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies, please view the titles of back issues at ‹ http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/oaw/en/bjoaf.shtml ›.

Authors are kindly requested to use our template (http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/oaw/pdf/vorlage.docx) and to send their paper as an email attachment to ‹ bjoaf@rub.de › by March 1, 2018. Please be advised that previously published papers cannot be accepted.