NTU Press Leads Seven University Publishers in Going International2014-06-02
National Taiwan University Press led seven Taiwanese national university publishers in holding a joint
book exhibition during the Association for Asian Studies 2014 Annual Conference in Philadelphia during March 28–30. Building on the momentum they accumulated through their joint exhibition at the 2014 Taipei
International Book Exhibition in February, the seven university publishers organized the joint exhibition in order to go international and share their outstanding academic publications with a global audience. The AAS exhibition was the first joint book exhibition these university publishers have organized overseas.
In addition to NTU Press, the other publishers were National Sun Yat-sen University Press, National Central University Press, National Chiao Tung University Press, National Tsing Hua University Press, National Chengchi University Press, Taipei National University of the Arts Publishing Section, and National Taiwan Normal University Press.
Established in 1941, the AAS is a non-political, non-profit international academic society focused on Asian studies. With more than 8,000 members, the AAS is also the largest scholarly organization devoted to Asian studies. The association holds its annual conference as well as book exhibition over three days each spring in North America, drawing the interest and participation of leading international academic researchers and publishers in the field of Asian studies. This event is an opportunity that university publishers focused on academic publications in Asian studies must not pass up, and this year it served as the perfect venue for the publishers of national universities in Taiwan to show off their world-class publications to an international audience.
During the AAS exhibition, the seven publishers displayed books covering a range of Asian studies topics, including literature, history, philosophy, social science, and art. Among the works presented by the NTU Press, Slow Reading of Wang Wen-hsing, a major seven-book series published at the end of 2013, the History of Chinese Thought Series, and the Japanese Studies collection drew the most attention at the exhibition.