East Asian studies

East Asian studies is an academic field which studies East Asia. It is multidisciplinary, which means that it uses knowledge from lots of different fields, for example history, economics, linguistics, politics and anthropology. This allows scholars to understand and appreciate East Asia better.[1][2][3]

East Asian studies
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 东亚研究
Traditional Chinese 東亞研究
Korean name
Hangul 동아시아학
Hanja 東亞研究
Japanese name
Kanji 東アジア研究
Kana ひがしあじあけんきゅう

Subfields

East Asian Studies Media

References

  1. "Sinological Shadows: The State of Modern China Studies in the United States," The Washington Quarterly (Spring 1980): 87-114, quote at p. 89.
  2. 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.
  3. Hebert, David (2018). International Perspectives on Translation, Education, and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies. New York: Springer. ISBN 9783319684321, p.13