Verge: Studies in Global Asias

“I can remember a time when the diving line between Asian and Asian American Studies seemed impermeable, yet because of Verge, in its pages, through its panels at both the Association for Asian Studies and the Association for Asian American Studies, and in the various presentations it has sponsored, in real life and in virtual space, the division between the two fields seems provincial and antiquated. Verge brings together scholars globally, across time and space through their scholarship, and Verge fosters the careers of graduate students and new faculty.”

-Dr. Jennifer Ho, Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado Boulder

“Verge has become a verb-“to Verge”-that is, to challenge structures of power, to dream new imaginaries, to discomfit our assumptions, to push into unknown and unexpected intellectual terrain, and to do so in the spirit of deep inquiry and respectful irreverence. I think of Verge as an intellectual tsuppari (Japanese sumo technique of rapid open-handed strikes to the opponent’s chest), creating new terrain by the force of its blows.”

-Dr. Christine R. Yano, Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i

Established in 2015, Verge: Studies in Global Asias showcases scholarship on “Asian” topics from across the humanities and humanistic social sciences, while recognizing that the changing scope of “Asia” as a concept and method is today an object of vital critical concern. Responding to the ways in which large-scale social, cultural, and economic concepts like the world, the globe, or the universal (not to mention East Asian cousins like tianxia or datong) are reshaping the ways we think about the present, the past and the future, the journal publishes scholarship the occupies and enlarges the proximities among disciplinary and historical fields, from the ancient to the modern periods.

In its first decade, themed issues of the journal have covered a range of subjects including culinary cultures, infrastructures and global political aesthetics, displaced subjects, Brown/ness(es), and Indigeneity. During that time, Verge has been awarded the AAP Prose Award for Best New Journal in the Humanities and Best New Journal from the Council of Editors of Learned Journal. Additionally, Tina Chen has received the Distinguished Editor Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals in honor of her work on Verge.

In celebration of this anniversary, we invite readers to revisit the following significant articles from the journal’s first ten years of award-winning content.

Free Verge: Studies in Global Asias articles on Project MUSE:

• Adrian de Leon, Thiti Jamkajornkeiat, Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Sarah Ihmoud, and Tiara R. Na’puti, Toward an Archipelagic Praxis and Method: Solidarity, Storytelling, and Decolonization across Global Asias,” Verge 10.2 (Fall 2024)
• Najnin Islam, Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard, and Neelofer Qadir, “Indenture, Iteration: Race and the Aesthetics of Contract Labor,” Verge 10.1 (Spring 2024)
• Ruslan Yusupov, Stephen Cho Suh, Leland Tabares, Jennifer R. Shutek, Erica Maria Cheung, “Recipes for Messiness,” Verge 9.2 (Fall 2023)
• Tina Chen, Nadine Attewell, Anushay Malik, David Ludden, Michael R. Jin, and Mark Chiang, “The Problems and Possibilities of Global Asias Pedagogy,” Verge 9.1 (Spring 2023)
• Hai Ren, Zheng Bo, and Mali Wu, “Planetary Art in the Sinophonecene: An Introduction,” Verge 8.2 (Fall 2022)
• Neelima Jeychandran, Nadine Attewell, Christine Neil Tejedor Vicera, Suzanne Enzerink, Joseph Harris Johnson, and Jenny Chio, “Race, Radicalization, and Anti-racism: Theorizing Blackness and Reimagining the Study of Global Asias,” Verge 8.1 (Spring 2022)
• Tara Fickle, Chris Patterson, Melos Han-Tani, Se Young Kim, Marina Kittaka, and Emperatriz Ung, “Asian/American Gaming,” Verge 7.2 (Fall 2021)
• Chang Tan, “Art of the Global Asias: From Identity to Intervention,” Verge 7.1 (Spring 2021)
• Jessamyn R. Abel and Leo Coleman, “Dreams of Infrastructure in Globals Asias,” Verge 6.2 (Fall 2020)
• Iyko Day, Juliana Hu Pegues, Melissa Phung, Dean Itsuji Saranilio, Danika Medak-Saltzman, “Settler Colonial Studies, Asian Diasporic Questions,” Verge 5.1 (Spring 2019)
• Tina Chen, “Context, Coordinate, Circulation: The Postrepresentational Cartographies of Global Asias,” Verge 3.1 (Spring 2017)
• Hilde de Weerdt, Chu Ming-Kin, and Ho Hou-leong, “Chinese Empires in Comparative Perspective: A Digital Approach” Verge 2.2 (Fall 2016)
• Peter K. Bol, “Mapping China’s History,” Verge 2.2 (Fall 2016)

Interested in reading more?

• Digital single title institutional subscriptions can be purchased by Project MUSE account holders using the Single Title Order Form.
• Institutional and individual print subscriptions are available through the University of Minnesota Press by clicking “Subscribe” on the Verge: Studies in Globals Asias landing page.
• Individuals can learn more about the Global Asias Initiative at Penn State University, including upcoming events, and more, here.