ABSTRACT
Communication research in Asia has a long tradition, comparable to what has been accomplished in the West. According to Chu (1988), the field of communication studies was introduced into Taiwan in the mid-1950s, into Hong Kong in the mid1960s, and into Mainland China in the early 1980s. Other Asian countries, such as Japan and Korea, also have well-established and active communication research communities and have contributed greatly to what we know about the mass media in Asia today. Overall, the community of Asian researchers is growing rapidly, with at least two established English-language journals specifically devoted to Asian communication research: Asian Journal of Communication, which is affiliated with the Asian Media Information Center (AMIC) in Singapore and Keio¯ Communication Review, which is published by Keio¯ University in Japan. Although studies from Asia are still the exception in large communication journals such as Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and Journal of Communication, the number of communication studies from Asia has risen steadily during the last two decades (Chan, 1992a).
