„Gdańskie Studia Azji Wschodniej” 2012–2024

Abstrakt

The aim of this article is to summarize the activities of the semi-annual academic journal Gdańskie Studia Azji Wschodniej (The Gdańsk Journal of East Asian Studies) since its establishment in 2012, including 25 issues. The journal was started as an academic project by the Centre for East Asian Studies of the University of Gdańsk. The subject matter of the academic articles published in the journal includes all matters related to the study and presentation of East Asian countries, especially China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, that is, above all, culture, philosophy, language, literature, history, law, statehood, politics, the economy, and economics. The criterion for selecting articles is, thus, not based on the scholarly fi eld, but whether the topic is related to the region of East Asia. The semi-annual journal is multidisciplinary in nature and the aim of the editorial staff is to present various East Asian countries to both Polish and non-Polish readers.
Since its establishment, the editor-in-chief of the journal has been Professor Kamil Zeidler, and the secretary of the editorial staff has been Dr. Joanna Kamień. The Academic Advisory Board of GSAW consists of scholars from Poland, China, Japan, and South Korea. Over the twelve years of the journal’s existence, it has published a total of 338 academic articles in twenty-five issues, including nineteen student pieces, thirty-five book reviews on topics related to East Asia, fifty-six reports on various events concerning East Asia, and five occasional in memoriam texts.
After the publication in June 2024 of a special issue entitled Cultural Heritage Law in Asia (edited by Kamil Zeidler and Joanna Kamień), the members of the previous editorial board passed on their duties to Dr. Jacek Splisgart, who became the new editor-in-chief of GSAW, and to Paulina Andrzejczak, MA, who became the new secretary of the editorial board. Issue 26 (2024) is the first to be published under the journal’s new editorial board.