The purpose of this paper is to gain perspective on the extent to which the vision for
knowledge production in East Asia set forth by Bajunid, Cheng, Hallinger, Walker, Dimmock and
others almost 20 years ago has been fulfilled. The authors undertook an effort to map the terrain of
knowledge production in educational leadership and management in East Asia since the year 2000.
Their method of mapping this terrain involves the analysis of trends in publication of articles about
and/or from East Asia in eight core educational leadership and management journals.