EAST ASIAN JOURNAL

Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies

To gain insight into the implications of institutional affiliation for inequality in historical China, we examine differences in the demographic behavior and social outcomes between the main and collateral lines of the Qing imperial lineage. The former consisted of direct descendants of Takeshi, grandfather of the Qing founder Huang Taiji, while the latter consisted of descendants of Takeshi’s ...

International journal editors and East Asian authors: two surveys

Countries in East Asia—specifically China, Japan, and South Korea—are rapidly emerging as major contributors to global research output. However, owing to barriers in language and culture, it is possible that authors from these countries face unique challenges in getting published. Moreover, as submissions from these countries increase, journal editors may be able to spot some trends in the prob...

East Asian Currency Union

This paper analyzes the feasibility of various types of currency unions, such as a dollar bloc, Euro bloc, Yen bloc, and basket currency bloc in East Asia, and empirically estimates welfare effects of a currency union for East Asian economies. Judging from optimum currency area (OCA) criteria, including the symmetry of output and price shocks across countries, commitment to price stability, and...

Are East Asian Versus Ability

The first systematic cross-national study of mathematical abilities was conducted in 1964 (Hu#n, 1967). The results of this study showed that American adolescents were among the most poorly educated students in mathematics in the industrialized world. In the ensuing 30 years, this basic finding has been replicated many times and has been shown to be true for nearly all mathematical domains, fro...

Were East Asian Currencies Overvalued?