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This essay draws on the philosophy, principles, and practices animating Global Asias scholarship to consider how this conceptual rubric shifts the ways in which we approach the subjects, objects, methods, and praxes of the academic study of Asia. Structurally dissonant as an epistemological project, Global Asias encourages scholars to acknowledge the institutional designs and disciplinary practices that currently organize and make legible work on Asia and its diasporas while simultaneously highlighting the limits of, and points of noncontact between, the broader infrastructures (including area studies, ethnic studies, diaspora studies, and the disciplines and interdisciplines) under which such work has traditionally been organized. In addition to offering a conceptual topography of Global Asias, this essay proposes three praxis-oriented concepts—relational nonalignment, structural dissonance, and imaginable ageography—that enable Global Asias as a tactical and evolving approach to the study of Asia and its multiple diasporas, one which actively resists the drive toward "critical consolidation" that often results from academic paradigm work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article talks about the Summer Institute in Asian American Studies (SIAAS) project and one of its objective being moving Asian American Studies to Asia. Topics discussed include the importance of Asia as a productive site in Asian American Studies, intellectual contributions by Asians or Asian Americans which will enrich the Studies, and developments in Asian Canadian Studies.

The article talks about the "East Asian Alliance / Global Vision: Asian American Studies in Asia" project that originated from a meeting organized by the National Science Council to identify research topics in the humanities and social sciences. Topics discussed include the project being divided in two parts which include organizing an annual Summer Institute in Asian American Studies, and organize and attend international conferences and workshops on the topic.