"An ongoing series which provides information about 90 mass communication institutions active in research, teaching and training in Asia, including address, telephone number, date founded, aims, activities, names of staff members, and a list of selected research and publications. The countries included are Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. First published in 1973 as the Asian Mass Communication Institutions, Teaching, Training and Research: A Directory, the 1986 directory is the fourth edition and the "most drastically revised." (Introduction) The second and third editions were published in 1975 and 1981." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1744)