Asia Major can accept any reasonable number of illustrations, including graphs, maps, charts and photographs. We prefer that graphs and maps be "line-art" only, that is solid black (or red) color throughout, without computerized pseudo-grey scale or pseudo-tints. They should be on good white paper and contain no markups by colored felt pen or any sort of pencil. Maps should not have overly complex symbols (e.g., double- or triple-dotted lines, etc.). We easily can take the author's simplex border-area line-art and supply our own legends and symbols over it.

Photos should be glossy positives; they can be b&w or color. A xerox may be submitted as an illustration if it is the only convenient way to supply it, and if the image xeroxed is a strong b&w image; usually, e.g., pages of Chinese traditional books with wood-block illustrations or text pages.

Asia Major will scan all such items, usually at 600 dpi. For a sample of the quality level of such illustrations, see vol.8, part 2, 1995. If an illustration is of a very fine and complex image and would require that, instead of our scanning, it be rephotographed at the printer's, or scanned by them on a professional high-level scanner and then stripped into the plate, an extra fee may in some cases be assessed. Asia Major does not provide tipped-in glossy pages to hold our illustrations; they are carried on our regular text-sheets. We have not yet made color illustrations, but may consider such in special circumstances.