Three Principles for an Asian Humanities

Care First . . . Learn From . . . Connect Histories

Bibliographic Data

ID8990797
AuthorsDonald R Davis (0000-0001-8343-1268, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume74
Issue1
Pages43-67
Publication date2014-12-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0021911814001673
OpenAlexW2102935849
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited28

In order to express what is uniquely accomplished in the field, Asian studies should be reconceived as Asian humanities and should adhere to three principles: care first, learn from, and connect histories. A review of the history and criticisms of Asian studies as a field calls for a positive theoretical articulation of what the best scholarship in Asian studies does and has done. The principles advocated here are not exclusive to Asian studies and should be extended to all area studies fields, but they are offered as a way to understand Asian studies as an essential field of the university and the academy, unique because of its content but common in spirit with the humanities generally

Articulation (sociology · Asian studies · Digital humanities · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Humanities · Order (exchange · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy

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