Framing Asian Studies : Geopolitics and Institutions

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 why Asian Studies and its subfields developed in the way they did, and what the implications of these transformations might be on intellectual and political understandings of Asia. The book not only builds on the current debates on the decolonization and de-imperialization of knowledge about Asia; it also proposes a more multifaceted view rather than just examining the impact of the West on the framing of Asian Studies.

Author: Albert Tzeng, William L Richter, Ekaterina Koldunova

Publisher: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

Publication Date: Jan 31, 2018

Number of Pages: 304 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 9814786306

ISBN-13: 9789814786300