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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 

Glynne Walley
Good Dogs explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese vernacular scholarship, social criticism, and commercial storytelling in late Tokugawa Japan through an examination of a masterpiece…
Yung-Hee Kim
Gendered Landscapes presents nine short stories and novellas by representative modern Korean women writers dating from the 1930s to the end of the 1990s.  Signature pieces selected…
Various
Translator: John R. Bentley Kokugaku (national study) is an academic field of study that spans a number of disciplines, including philology, poetry, literature, linguistics, history,…
Leopold Müller
Translators and Editors: Elizabeth Markham, Naoko Terauchi, and Rembrandt Wolpert Despite their significance, the writings on Japanese music by Prussian medical scientist and physician Leopold…
Bishop D. McKendree
From the Foreword by David McCann: "Bishop McKendree's gathering of songs and poems from the Japanese prisoner of war camps of World War II is a remarkable outcome to a brutal experience....The…
Chonghwa Lee, Rebecca Jennison, and Brett de Bary
EDITED BY CHONGHWA LEE, TRANSLATED BY REBECCA JENNISON AND BRETT DE BARY Still Hear the Wound: Towards an Asia, Politics, Art To Come introduces English language readers for the first time to work by…
By Our Faculty
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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 Siemon, 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.