The Chinese Studies Journal (CSJ) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Philippine Association for Chinese Studies. It welcomes original essays with engaging perspectives that contribute to the scholarship of China/Chinese Studies. Multidisciplinary in approach, the CSJ features in-depth analyses of the politics, history, economics, culture, and society that underpin key developments in Philippines-China relations, Chinese in the Philippines, and other interrogations on China and the Chinese that relate to, inform, or are of interest to Philippine discourses.