Forum on Universalism and Relativism in Asian Studies Editor's Introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3667451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David D Buck (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-34 |
| Publication date | 1991-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911800045629 |
| OpenAlex | W2021243074 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 8 |
How to establish and transmit understanding across the boundaries of language, geography, culture, and time lies at the very heart of Asian Studies. Ours is a highly refined form of cross-cultural activity, but one that places the highest value on this understanding. To engage in this activity, individuals undergo long periods of training to master other languages, to produce, and then to present their knowledge in certain rigorously defined forms. The scholar works in this way both to establish some particular understanding and then to transmit that understanding to other Asianists, students, various other specialists, and the public at large
Cultural relativism · Epistemology · Human rights · Political science · Relativism · Social science · Sociology · Statistics · Universalism · Value (mathematics) · Asian Studies and History · Chinese history and philosophy · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy
Chinese Macrosecuritization
Demystifying Qi
Handmaids to the Gospel
Looting Beijing
A Picture of a Cat against Cholera? Rationality in History as Seen from a Universalist Perspective
China's human rights development in the 1990s
Infusing morality into political institutions
Institutionalising peaceful conflict
The Complexity of Difference
Legislating the Universal
The Bathos of a Universalism
Patterns of characterization in folktales across geographic regions and levels of cultural complexity
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2023 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |