RISING ASIA JOURNAL is a peer reviewed journal published three times a year in January, May, and September. 

Reviewers are welcome to submit book reviews on any aspect of Asia, covering India's Northeast, Southeast Asia, and East Asia (China, Japan, the Koreas, and Taiwan). 

For details on our book reviews and manuscript preparation guidelines, please go to SUBMIT ARTICLES in our website www.rajraf.org 

Send your reviews to Professor Tuan Hoang at tuan.hoang@pepperdine.edu and to the Editor Dr. Harish Mehta at hmehta76@yahoo.ca

In the subject line of your email, please write "Book Review for Rising Asia Journal."

Book Review Guidelines for Reviewers

Reviewers, at the top of the review, please provide the following information:

Title of book, author’s name, place of publication, publisher’s name, year of publication, number of pages, and price. For example: David Best, The History of Food (New York: Penguin, 2006), 350 pages, $65.

Please adhere to the following guidelines:

• Effectiveness: Place the review within a broader context, explaining what important issues are worth the attention of readers.
• Content: Reviews should include a brief summary of the scope, purpose, and content of the book and its significance in the literature of the subject.
• Context: Reviewers should include a brief survey/outline of the literature in the field (i.e. other books by scholars on the same topic or field), with a short comment on how the book being reviewed differs from, or adds to, the existing literature.
• Evaluation: Reviews should go beyond description of the book and should evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the work, paying attention to the use of sources, methodology, organization, and presentation. Evaluation should consider the work's stated purpose.
• Audience: Reviewers need to keep in mind the readership of our journal, which comes from many different disciplines and departments, so it is important for reviewers to provide historiographical and historical background.
• Professionalism: Whether the evaluation of a work is favorable or unfavorable, reviewers should express criticism in courteous, temperate, and constructive terms. Reviewers are responsible for presenting a fair and balanced review and for treating authors with respect.
• Finally, as with any good scholarly review, your review should make reference to related sources, and should help readers consider how the material or presentation being evaluated fits within its discipline. These 1,500 to 2,000-word book reviews need proper footnotes, both giving page numbers for the book being reviewed, and full publication details for other books being cited such as in the survey of the literature in the field.