Academic nations in China and Japan : framed in concepts of nature, culture and the universal
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Bibliographic Information
Academic nations in China and Japan : framed in concepts of nature, culture and the universal
(The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series)
RoutledgeCurzon, 2004
Available at 27 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-213) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 carefully analyses the role the nation-state plays in Chinese and Japanese academic theory, demonstrating how nation-centric blinkers often force academics to define social, cultural and economic issues as unique to a certain regional grouping. The book shows how this in turn contributes to the consolidating of national identity while identifying the complex and unintended effects of historical processes and the role played by other local, personal and universal identities which are usually discarded.
While this book primarily reveals how academic nations are conceptualized through views of nature, culture and science, the author simultaneously identifies comparable problems concerning the relation between social science research and the development of the nation state. This book will appeal not only to Asianists but also to those with research interests in Cultural Studies and Sinology.
Table of Contents
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
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