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Offering a fresh approach to East Asia and Asian American studies, positions employs theoretical and multidisciplinary methods in creating a provocative forum for vigorous debate. Through expansive scholarly articles, commentaries, poetry, photo spreads, and political and philosophical debates, contributors consider a broad variety of pressing questions from a striking range of perspectives. Thematic issues of positions tackling new, often pathbreaking areas of concern—or traditional areas of concern from a fresh vantage point—are interspersed with general issues offering original scholarship that crosses disciplinary and topical boundaries. The breadth and pace of the journal ensure that readers are challenged as well as informed.

Special issues include

"Proletarian Arts in East Asia: Quests for National, Gender, and Class Justice" (14:2)
—Heather Bowen-Struyk, special issue editor

"Alain Badiou and Cultural Revolution" (13:3)
—Tani Barlow, special issue editor

"Against Preemptive War" (13:1)
—Tani Barlow, Yukiko Hanawa, Thomas LaMarre, and Donald Lowe, special issue editors

"Intersections: Issues in Contemporary Art" (12:3)
—Joan Kee, special issue editor

"Intellectuals and Social Movements, Part 2" (12:1)
—Tani Barlow, special issue editor

"Intellectuals and Social Movements, Part 1" (11:3)
—Tani Barlow, special issue editor

"Fabrications" (11:2)
—Tina Mai Chen and Paola Zamperini, special issue editors

"The Afro-Asian Century" (11:1)
—Andrew F. Jones and Nikhil Pal Singh, special issue editors

Indexed/abstracted in the following: Academic Search Premier, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Bibliography of Asian Studies, Contemporary Culture Index, Current Abstracts, Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, Iowa Guide, Magazines for Libraries, MLA Bibliography, SocINDEX.

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Frequency: Three issues annually