Asian studies
Study of culture and history of continental Asia
Asian studies is the term used usually in North America and Australia for what in Europe is known as Oriental studies. 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.
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".
01Branches
- South Asian studies (Indology)
- Southeast Asian studies
- Filipinology (Philippine studies)
- Thai studies
- Vietnamese studies
- Burma studies
- Indonesian studies
- East Asian studies
- Sinology (Chinese studies)
- Taiwan studies
- Japanese studies
- Jurchen studies
- Khitan studies
- Korean studies
- Manchurology
- Mongolian studies
- Tangutology
- Tibetology (Tibetan studies)
- Uyghur studies
- West Asian studies
- Central Asian studies
- Semitic studies
- Jewish studies (often overlapping with Middle Eastern studies)
- Islamic studies (often overlapping with Middle Eastern and Central Asian studies)
- Middle Eastern studies or Near Eastern studies
02Academic journals
| Name | Established | Behalf | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2004 | Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo | Cambridge University Press |
| Asian Survey | 1932 | Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley | University of California Press |
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