Asian studies is the term used usually in North America and Australia for what in Europe is known as Oriental studies. The field is concerned with the Asian people, their cultures, languages, history and politics. Within the Asian sphere, Asian studies combines aspects of sociology, history, cultural anthropology, cultural studies, and many other disciplines to study political, cultural and economic phenomena in Asian traditional and contemporary societies. Asian studies form a field of post-graduate study in many universities.
It is a branch of area studies, and many Western universities combine Asian and African studies in a single faculty or institute, like SOAS in London. It is often combined with Islamic studies in a similar way. The history of the discipline in the West is covered under Oriental studies.
The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) only considers Asia to the east of the Indus River in its scope of "Asian Studies".
Branches South Asian studies (Indology) Bengal studies Dravidian studies Tamilology Pakistan studies Sindhology Southeast Asian studies Filipinology (Philippine studies) Thai studies Vietnamese studies Burma studies Indonesian studies East Asian studies Sinology (Chinese studies) Taiwan studies Japanese studies Ainu studies Okinawan studies Ryukyuan studies Jurchen studies Khitan studies Korean studies Manchurology Mongolian studies Tangutology Tibetology (Tibetan studies) Uyghur studies West Asian studies Jewish studies Iranian studies Central Asian studies Turkology Semitic studies Assyriology Aramaic studies Arabic studies Hebraic studies Jewish studies (often overlapping with Middle Eastern studies) Islamic studies (often overlapping with Middle Eastern and Central Asian studies) Middle Eastern studies or Near Eastern studies
Academic journals
+NameEstablishedBehalfPublisherThe Journal of Asian Studies1941Association for Asian StudiesDuke University PressModern Asian Studies1967University of Cambridge; Committee of Directors at the Centre of South Asian StudiesCambridge University PressCritical Asian Studies1967Committee of Concerned Asian ScholarsTaylor & FrancisAsian Studies Review1977Asian Studies Association of AustraliaTaylor & FrancisInternational Journal of Asian Studies2004Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of TokyoCambridge University PressAsian Survey1932Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California Press
See also Black and Asian Studies Association Asia Society Asian American Writers Workshop
References
External links International Institute for Asian Studies Graduate Programs in Asian ANU College of Asia & the Pacific Contemporary Asian Studies – University of Amsterdam Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies – Lund University