This issue revives an earlier practice in the Journal of Asian Studies (JAS) of bringing together scholarship and discussions under the heading of forums. The purpose is to provide intellectual engagements on seminal topics, themes, key words, and texts. Perhaps more important, the forums will provide an opportunity to debate the entangled and connected histories within (and without) Asia. Each forum will consist of three or four essays or articles—plus an introduction and/or an afterword. The plan is to include two or three forums in each volume of the JAS.
The forum in this issue is entitled “Anti-colonialism in Asia: The Centenary of 1919.” The concatenation of political movements across the globe were not only promoting the principles of self-determination for the world's oppressed, colonized, and exploited populations, but also contending with radical planetary transformations in the aftermath of the Great War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and...
