Academic Nations in China and Japan : Framed by Concepts of Nature, Culture and the Universal.
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, ho...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Academic Nations in China and Japan -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the text -- Abbreviations -- PART I Framing the nation -- 1 Introduction: Framing the nation in China and Japan -- Group classifications and distinctions -- The problem of framing the nation -- Framing the nation and Orientalist categories -- Framing the nation and reducing 'Them' and 'the Other' -- Trends in categorizing groups -- Three forms of grouping -- 2 The power of national symbols: The might of a Chinese dragon -- Feeding (on) symbolic power -- The might of a multiple interpretable dragon -- Symbols as effective triggers of associated sentiments in linked contexts -- 3 The coherent force of struggle and diversity in Chinese nationalism -- Natural group markers -- Origins, coherent force and consanguinity -- Coherent force: The dialectical unity of merger through struggle -- PART II Group categorization -- 4 Natural categorization -- Chosen peoples and codified brains -- The evolution of Us cultural brains and Them civilized brains -- Instinctive distancing: Are we closest to macaques or Ōbei-ans? -- A Japanese solution to climatic deterioration: Animism renaissance -- The king's fall from the forest and Western Cartesian thought -- Digging up genetic roots: The reappropriation of the past -- Natural group categories in short -- 5 Culturalist categorization -- The universality of primitive forest culture: Umehara Takeshi's Jōmon -- Yin-yang regulation of the two hemispheres: Ye Qiaojian -- Hu Fuchen: Taoist universality and Chinese scientific wisdom -- Universal markers of betrayal and linguistic supremacy: Tsuda Yukio -- Cultural categories -- 6 Global categorization -- Borderless values -- Balancing scientistic arguments against Japanese uniqueness. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Aidagara, kanjinshugi and autopoiesis -- Key persons and national systems strategies: Mutual trust and uncertainty -- Rigid analogous processors and adaptive parallel processors -- Scientism and the unit of the nation -- PART III Group-framing habits and strategies -- 7 Grouping -- Group architecture -- Framing group differences -- Grouping in short -- 8 Framing the nation in the short history of the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken, 1987- ) -- Institutionalized nation-framing and its failure as social science -- Nichibunken -- Structural aspects of knowledge production -- The unit of the nation -- 9 Nation-centred political strategies in academic thought Examples from China and Japan -- A neglect of the local and the specific -- Subordination of the universal to the national -- The nation and its various interest groups -- Controlling the 'national organism' and the 'system' -- Habitual nation-framing and its consequences -- 10 Nation-framing as an academic strategy in the PRC -- Social science and state building in the PRC -- Appraising national policies -- National prescription and conservatism -- The failure to imagine other views of the nation -- The political predictability of framing the nation -- Framing the nation in the PRC: Some features -- 11 Core themes and an outlook on future research -- The universal and particular in framing the nation -- Framing the nation and spatial and temporal order -- Examples from China and Japan -- Features of nation-framing -- Appendix I: Joint research, Nichibunken (1988-96) -- Appendix II: General research meetings, Nichibunken -- Appendix III: Fields of basic research -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a 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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