East Asian studies
East Asian studies | |
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Chinese name | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Dōngyà yánjiū |
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Revised Romanization | Dong'asiahak |
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Romanization | Higashi Ajia kenkyū |
East Asian studies is a distinct
At universities throughout North America and the Western world, the study of East Asian humanities is traditionally housed in EALC (East Asian Languages and Civilizations or Cultures) departments, which run majors in Chinese and Japanese language and literature and sometimes Korean language and literature. East Asian studies programs, on the other hand, are typically interdisciplinary centers that bring together literary scholars, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, etc. from their various departments and schools to promote instructional programs, conferences and lecture series of common interest. East Asian studies centers also often run interdisciplinary undergraduate and master's degree programs in East Asian studies.
Subfields
- Sinology
The sub-field dedicated to
The sub-field dedicated to
The sub-field dedicated to
The sub-field dedicated to
Orient
In addition to the above, studies about the history of the Orient have mainly developed in Japan. Orient means areas in North Africa, Eurasia except Europe and islands around them because of chaos due to studies about the history of Greater China and Korea under the Tokugawa shogunate before 1868 and those about the Eastern world from the establishment of European-style high-educational institutions after that year.
The notion about Oriental history that was made between 1868 and 1945 did not spread on other East Asian areas including Korea as the colony of Japan. There have been some Japanese notable historians about Oriental history but they are less famous in other countries.
Colleges that offer East Asian studies
North America
- Brandeis University: East Asian Studies
- Stanford University: Center for East Asian Studies
- Yale University: East Asian studies
- Princeton University: Department of East Asian Studies
- Columbia University: East Asian Regional Studies
- Harvard University: East Asian Studies
- Johns Hopkins University: East Asian Studies
- University of Chicago: Center for East Asian Studies
- Brown University Department of East Asian Studies
- University of Southern California: Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- University of Pennsylvania: Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
- New York University: Department of East Asian Studies
- Indiana University Bloomington: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Georgetown University: Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- University of Pittsburgh Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Washington University in St. Louis: Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- University at Albany: Department of East Asian Studies
- University of California, Berkeley: Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- University of California, Irvine: East Asian studies
- University of California, Davis: East Asian Studies
- University of Virginia: East Asia Center
- University of Maryland: Center for East Asian Studies
- University of Texas at Austin: Center for East Asian Studies
- George Washington University: Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
- University of Arizona: Department of East Asian Studies
- University of Notre Dame: Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- University of Kansas: Center for East Asian Studies
- Wake Forest University: Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Dickinson College: Department of East Asian Studies
- Ohio State University: East Asian Studies Center
- Oberlin College: Department of East Asian Studies
- University of Virginia: East Asian Languages, Literatures and Cultures
- Western Washington University: East Asian Studies
- University of Toronto: Department of East Asian Studies
- University of Alberta: East Asian Studies
- McGill University: Department of East Asian Studies
- York University: York Asia Research Network
Asia
- National Taiwan Normal University: Department of East Asian Studies
- National Chengchi University: Institute of East Asian Studies
- University of Malaya: Department of East Asia Studies
- University of Delhi: Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi
- Jawaharlal Nehru University: Centre for East Asian Studies
- Tel Aviv University: Department of East Asia Studies
Europe
- SOAS University of London: Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- University of Cambridge: East Asian Studies
- University of Leeds: East Asian Studies
- Comenius University Bratislava: Department of East Asian Studies
- Paris Cité University: School of East Asian Studies
- Heidelberg University: East Asian Studies
- University of Göttingen: Department of East Asia Studies
History
In universities across the United States, as part of the
In the following decades, many critics were inspired by Edward Said's 1978 book Orientalism, while others, writing from the point of view of the quantitative or theoretical social sciences, saw area studies in general and East Asian studies in particular, as amorphous and lacking in rigor.[1]
Critiques were also mounted from other points in the political spectrum. Ramon H. Myers and Thomas A. Metzger, two scholars based at the generally conservative Hoover Institution, charged that "the 'revolution' paradigm increasingly overshadowed the 'modernization' paradigm" and "this fallacy has become integral to much of the writing on modern Chinese history", discrediting or ignoring other factors in the history of modern China.[2]
In Europe, notable scholars of East Asian studies have long occupied professorships at prominent universities in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, France and Italy, while recent publications also suggest that the "Nordic countries offer some unique contributions in the field of East Asian studies."[3]
Journals
Some journals also cover other regions of Asia in addition to East Asia.
- Asian Culture
- Asian Survey
- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
- East Asian History
- Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
- Journal Asiatique
- Journal of Asian Studies
- Journal of Chinese Religions
- Journal of Contemporary China
- Journal of East Asian Studies
- Late Imperial China
- Modern Asian Studies
- Modern China (journal)
- New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
- Pacific Affairs
- The China Quarterly
- T'oung Pao
See also
- Area studies
- List of academic disciplines
Notes
References
- ^ Judith Farquhar, James Hevia, "Culture and Postwar American Historiography of China", positions 1.2 (1993): 486-525; Andrew Gordon, "Rethinking Area Studies, Once More" The Journal of Japanese Studies 30. 2, (Summer 2004): 417-429.
- ^ "Sinological Shadows: The State of Modern China Studies in the United States", The Washington Quarterly (Spring 1980): 87-114, quote at p. 89.
- ISBN 9783319684321, p.13
External links
Library guides to East Asian studies
- "East Asian Studies Subject Resources". Subject Guides. Australian National University Library. Archived from the original on 2014-02-08. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- C.V. Starr East Asian Library. "Research Guides". USA: University of California, Berkeley.
- "East Asian Studies". Research Guides. Los Angeles: University of California.
- "East Asian Studies". Research Guides. Harvard University Library. Archived from the original on 2014-09-09. Retrieved 2014-04-23.
- "East Asian Studies". Library Guides. USA: Johns Hopkins University. Archived from the original on 2014-12-28. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
- "East Asian Studies". Research Guides. USA: University of Michigan.
- "East Asian Studies Research Guides". Princeton LibGuides. USA: Princeton University Library. Archived from the original on 2012-12-03.
- "East Asian Studies". Research Guides. USA: University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Archived from the original on 2013-12-25.
- "East Asian Studies in Western Languages". Library Subject Guides. USA: Yale University Library. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-04-22.