This issue sees off three years of my serving, from 2016 to 2018, as editor-in-chief of EASTS. As I did when I started, I would like to thank all our authors, reviewers, and editorial team—in the past three years, together we have proudly presented cutting-edge scholarship in individual papers and thematic issues from issue 10.3 to 12.4. My particular thanks go to associate editors Hee-Je Bak, Francesca Bray, Michael Fischer, Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, and Togo Tsukahara, for their generous support. Without them, this journal would not have developed into what it now is.
Special thanks also go to Professor Honghong Tinn, convener of the book review editorial board from 2012 to 2018. In her long and excellent service, Professor Tinn successfully secured high-quality reviews, making East Asian books more accessible to English readers. In some reviews she invited alternative perspectives, not always Asian but definitely stimulating, to mainstream scholarship. We are grateful indeed for her efforts and are delighted that she will be staying with us on the editorial team. It is also a pleasure to have Professor Jia-shin Chen, who joined the team as a book review editor in 2016, to take on this challenging job. Both will be writing in this issue: Professor Tinn summarizes her achievement, and Professor Chen envisions the future of book reviews at EASTS.
