"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...
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"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"--Publisher's description
Josine Stremmelaar and Paul van der Velde: What about Asia? : revisiting Asian studies
Gananath Obeyesekere: Asian studies and the discourse of the human sciences
Peter van der Veer: Area studies in a changing world
Shamsul A.B.: Asia as a form of knowledge : of analyses, (re) production, and consumption
Robert Cribb: A little knowledge is a useful thing : paradoxes in the Asian studies experience in Australia
Yeo Lay Hwee: The ebb and flow od ASEM studies
Paul van der Veer.: Re-orienting Asian studies
What about Asia?
revisiting Asian studies
Published:
2010
Publisher:
Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam
"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...
more
"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"--Publisher's description