Framing Asian Studies : : Geopolitics and Institutions / / ed. by Albert Tzeng, William L. Richter, Ekaterina Koldunova.
This book explores the interconnection between geopolitical context and the ways this context frames our knowledge about Asia, highlighting previously neglected cause-effect relations. It also examines how various knowledge institutions promote and shape Asian Studies. The authors seek to explain wh...
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Place / Publishing House: | Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- The Contributors
- 1. Introduction: Framing Asian Studies
- Part I. Contested "Asia"
- 2. From Oriental Studies to Asian Studies: The Metamorphosis of the Western Mind
- 3. Geopolitical and Social Framings of Australia's "Asia Literacy"
- 4. Maps as Illustrations and Logos: Geopolitical Construction of Asia and South Asia
- Part II. Geopolitical Framing of Western Discourse
- 5. From Geertz to Ricklefs: The Changing Discourse on Javanese Religion and its Wider Contexts
- 6. Framing Cambodian Affairs: French and American Scholarship, Media and Geopolitics
- 7. Studying Taiwan: The Politics of Area Studies in the United States and Europe
- Part III. Asian Studies in Former Soviet States
- 8. Southeast Asian Studies in Russia: Agents against Structural Limits
- 9. India Studies in Soviet Lithuania: Approaching Asia from Outside the Establishment
- Part IV. Inter-Asian Gazes
- 10. Indian Understandings of Asia
- 11. South Seas Chinese in Colonial Classifications
- 12. Chinese Studies in Japan and South Korea: Geopolitics, Local Embeddedness and Knowledge
- Index