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.
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