Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies is a quarterly interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the exploration of the humanistic heritage of East Asia’s Sinographic sphere, a cultural region where Literary Sinitic (漢文) and Sinographs (漢字) served as the cosmopolitan language of the government, religious institutions, scholarship and belles-lettres.

We encourage scholars from around the world to engage with East Asia’s humanistic heritage, contributing fresh perspectives and innovative methodologies that promote new interpretations of traditional East Asia, challenge established nation-state-centered narratives, and advocate for the study of East Asia through a broader comparative and global lens that highlights practices of the creation, transmission, and preservation of humanistic heritage that are distinctive of the East Asian region.

This is the first journal that provides an academic platform for researchers around the world to develop and debate cross-disciplinary, cross-regional, and cross-cultural approaches to the vast humanistic heritage of East Asia. We invite submissions that discover, reexamine, or newly analyze any aspect of East Asia’s intellectual, literary, religious, artistic, or scientific legacies and chart the way for a new paradigm of East Asian Studies in a global and comparative key.

Each issue will consist of three parts: a special theme section; individual research articles, reviews of relevant new publications in major languages; plus occasional essays and brief notices.