Asian studies

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Asian studies is the term used usually in North America and Australia for what in Europe is known as Oriental studies. [1] The field is concerned with the Asian people, their cultures, languages, history and politics. Within the Asian sphere, Asian studies combines aspects of sociology, history, cultural anthropology, cultural studies, and many other disciplines to study political, cultural and economic phenomena in Asian traditional and contemporary societies. Asian studies form a field of post-graduate study in many universities.

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It is a branch of area studies, and many Western universities combine Asian and African studies in a single faculty or institute, like SOAS in London. It is often combined with Islamic studies in a similar way. The history of the discipline in the West is covered under Oriental studies.

The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) only considers Asia to the east of the Indus River in its scope of "Asian Studies". [2]

Branches

Academic journals

NameEstablishedBehalfPublisher
The Journal of Asian Studies 1941 Association for Asian Studies Duke University Press
Modern Asian Studies 1967 University of Cambridge; Committee of Directors at the Centre of South Asian Studies Cambridge University Press
Critical Asian Studies 1967 Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars Taylor & Francis
Asian Studies Review 1977 Asian Studies Association of Australia Taylor & Francis
International Journal of Asian Studies 2004Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo Cambridge University Press
Asian Survey 1932Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley University of California Press

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References

  1. ↑ Choudhury, Maitreyee (2018), Tzeng, Albert; Koldunova, Ekaterina; L. Richter, William (eds.), "From Oriental Studies to Asian Studies: The Metamorphosis of the Western Mind", Framing Asian Studies: Geopolitics and Institutions, Lectures, Workshops, and Proceedings of International Conferences, ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, pp. 20–43, ISBN   978-981-4786-31-7 , retrieved 2024-07-19{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
  2. ↑ International Institute of Asian Studies (2014-02-25). Guide to Asian Studies in Europe. Routledge. p.  xi. ISBN   9781136811920.
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