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Academic Nations in China and Japan Framed by Concepts of Nature, Culture and the Universal
By Margaret Sleeboom
Copyright 2004
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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The descriptions Chinese and Japanese people attribute to themselves and to each other differ vastly and stand in stark contrast to Western perceptions that usually identify a 'similar disposition' between the two nations. Academic Nationals in China and Japan explores human categories, how academics classify themselves and how they divide the world into groups of people. Margaret Sleeboom... Read more
Part I - Framing the Nation 1. Introduction: Framing the Nation in China and Japan 2. The Power of National Symbols: The Might of a Chinese Dragon 3. The Coherent Force of Struggle and Diversity in Chinese Nationalism Part II - Group Categorization 5. Culturalist Categorization 6. Global Categorization Part III - Group Framing Habits and Strategies 7. Grouping 8. Framing the Nation in the Short History of the International research Centre for Japanese Culture (Nichibunken, 1987 - ) 9. Nation-Centred Political Strategies in Academic Thought, Examples from China and Japan 10. Nation Framing as an Academic Strategy in the PRC 11. Core Themes and an Outlook on Future Research
Biography
Margaret Sleeboom teaches anthropology at Amsterdam University and is a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies.
'This volume is an important addition to a series of meta-discourses on cultural nationalism in China and Japan as practised in the last decade or so.' - Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
