Contents

pp v-vi

Foreword

pp vii-x

The Contributors

pp xi-xiv

1 - Introduction: Framing Asian Studies

pp 1-18

I - Contested “Asia”

pp 19-19

2 - From Oriental Studies to Asian Studies: The Metamorphosis of the Western Mind

pp 20-43

3 - Geopolitical and Social Framings of Australia's “Asia Literacy”

pp 44-63

4 - Maps as Illustrations and Logos: Geopolitical Construction of Asia and South Asia

pp 64-98

II - Geopolitical Framing of Western Discourse

pp 99-100

5 - From Geertz to Ricklefs: The Changing Discourse on Javanese Religion and its Wider Contexts

pp 101-119

6 - Framing Cambodian Affairs: French and American Scholarship, Media and Geopolitics

pp 120-141

7 - Studying Taiwan: The Politics of Area Studies in the United States and Europe

pp 142-162

III - Asian Studies in Former Soviet States

pp 163-164

8 - Southeast Asian Studies in Russia: Agents against Structural Limits

pp 165-188

9 - India Studies in Soviet Lithuania: Approaching Asia from Outside the Establishment

pp 189-208

IV - Inter-Asian Gazes

pp 209-210

10 - Indian Understandings of Asia

pp 211-230

11 - South Seas Chinese in Colonial Classifications

pp 231-252

12 - Chinese Studies in Japan and South Korea: Geopolitics, Local Embeddedness and Knowledge

pp 253-274

Index

pp 275-289