基本説明
Presents the current state of the dabate on Asian studies by tacking the issue from a multiregional and interdisciplinary perspective.
Full Description
What about Asia? Revisiting Asian Studies brings together scholars from Asia, Europe and America to test the strength of a field of study which, considering the rise of Asia, should be gaining momentum. But is it? This is one of the many questions that the contributors to this volume ask themselves. In the past decade the use and legitimacy of area studies, and in particular Asian studies, have been passionately debated in conferences and academic journals. What about Asia? gives the current state of the debate on Asian studies by tackling the issue from a multiregional and interdisciplinary perspective.
Contents
Table of Contents - 6 What about Asia? Revisiting Asian Studies - 8 Asian Studies and the Discourse of the Human Sciences - 16 Area Studies in a Changing World - 32 Asia as a Form of Knowledge: of Analyses, (Re)Production, and Consumption - 44 'A Little Knowledge is a Useful Thing': Paradoxes in the Asian Studies Experience in Australia - 58 The Ebb and Flow of ASEM Studies - 70 Re-orienting Asian Studies - 88 Abbreviations - 106 Contributors - 108
