Asian Survey is a bimonthly academic journal

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 of Asian studies

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 published by the University of California Press

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 (Berkeley, California

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, USA) on behalf of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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. Asian Survey focuses on qualitative descriptive articles rather than analytic quantitative articles. Journal coverage ranges in scope from diplomacy, disarmament, missile defense, military affairs, and modernization, to ethnicity, ethnic violence, economic nationalism, general elections, and global capitalism. The journal was established in 1961.

External links

• Homepage for the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley