1st Edition
Rethinking Japanese Studies Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Rethinking ‘Eurocentrism’ and Area Studies: Japanese Studies in the Asia-Pacific (Kaori Okano)
Chapter 2 Studying Japan as the ‘Other’: A Short History of Japanese Studies and Its Future (Eiji Oguma)
Chapter 3 Japanese Language Research: Kokugo as an Ideology, Nihongo as an Autonomous Global Scholarship? (Lidia Tanaka)
Chapter 4 From ‘National’ Literature to Multicultural Literature in ‘Japanese’ Language? (Tomoko Aoyama)
Chapter 5 Development of Japanese Studies with a Southeast-Asian Perspective (Leng Leng THANG)
Chapter 6 Japanese Studies in South Korea (Duck Yong LEE)
Chapter 7 Australia’s View of Japan, as Seen from Japanese Studies (Carolyn Stevens)
Chapter 8 Transnational Dialogues on Historical Issues Concerning East Asia: Collaborative Project to Write History Textbooks [China, Japan and South Korea] (BU Ping)
Chapter 9 Whispering, Writing and Working across Borders: Practising Transnational History in East Asia (Vera Mackie)
Chapter 10 Turning toward a Cosmopolitan Japanese Studies (Yoshio Sugimoto)
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Kaori Okano is Professor in Asian Studies/Japanese at La Trobe University, and the President of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia (2015–7).
Yoshio Sugimoto is Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University.
'These chapters contain a key to understand not simply how to make Japanese Studies relevant to a world in which Japan may seem passé, but also how area studies might enable a transcendence of the constraints of Eurocentrism and provincial Anglo-American standards of academic judgment.' - Gordon Mathews,Professor of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
'Nonetheless,the book makes noteworthy contributions and contains some intriguing findings. It explores the origins, impact, and emerging alternatives to Eurocentrism in Japanese studies, largely within the Asia-Pacific region. Contributors also touch on issues of global knowledge production, the international stratification of academia, and Asia-Pacific scholarship, thus reaching beyond a narrow focus of Japanese studies within the Asia Pacific.' - W. Lawrence Neuman, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, USA
