The Virginia Consortium of Asian Studies (VCAS) is a scholarly, non-profit and academic organization designed to promote the study of Asia throughout Virginia and the Southeast.

It sponsors an annual conference and the journal, Virginia Review of Asian Studies.

Recent issues of the Virginia Review of Asian Studies are available online.

If the above link doesn't work try: http://vcas.wlu.edu/VRAS/


New == Fall 2008 VRAS Now Online! <== New

VRAS 2007
Several working papers by VCAS members are posted there as well, including Daniel Metraux's manuscript book on China.


 

 

ANNUAL CONFERENCES

 


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Due to sabbaticals, no conference was been held in spring 2006, 2007 or 2008. We may be able to resume in Fall 2009.

February 2005 program

William Skinner, Keynote Speaker, on Continuity across Chinese History: A Geographical Analysis of Southeast China

February 2004 program

Roundtable on North Korea featuring diplomats from South Korea and Japan