This past July, at Taipei's National Yang-Ming University, EASTS held its fourth International Journal Conference on East Asian STS. Under the initiative of Prof. Wu Chia-Ling of National Taiwan University's Department of Sociology, we had a special panel discussion titled “How Far Has EASTS Gone?,” which was undertaken partly as a long-term response to my position paper “How Far Can EASTS Go?” published in the first issue of EASTS in 2007. Since issue 1, we of the EASTS editorial board have worked with many authors and reviewers to publish another twenty-one issues over the last five years. And now I'm writing this editor's note for issue 6:4, the issue before the final one (7:1) I edit in my editorial term. Our next editor in chief, Professor Wu, will take over the responsibility of leading EASTS beginning with issue 7:2. She will work with the active and talented Professor Li Shang-jen of Academia Sinica as Taiwan's next associate editor. Chia-Ling has worked with me as associate editor of EASTS since its early conception and preparation in 2006 until the double issue 3:2–3 (2009), before Professor Chu Pingyi succeeded her as associate editor. Thus she has ample experience and enthusiasm for this journal, in addition to her admirable talent and scholarship. I have no doubt that she is the one to lead EASTS as we look to the future.
