Academic Nationalism in China and Japan Framed in Concepts of Nature Culture and the Universal Nissan Institute Routledge Japanese Studies Series 1st Edition by Margar Sleeboom ISBN 978-0415315456 041531545X

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ISBN 10: 041531545X

ISBN 13: 978-0415315456

Author: Margar Sleeboom

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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