Routledge

Routledge

English

'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 'This valuable anthology invites us to refl ect on the continuing reality that Japan studies globally has been dominated by Anglophone scholarship, with key publications in English—and with the West often serving as the primary point of comparison. It offers a window into the fi eld of Japan studies in South Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia, and Japan itself and showcases collaborative research projects that study ransnational interplay among East Asian nations.' - Amy Borovoy, Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University, USA