Asian studies

Asian studies, a term that has largely replaced the older Oriental studies, is concerned with the Asian peoples, their cultures, languages, history and politics. Within the Asian sphere, Asian studies combines aspects of sociology, history, cultural anthropology and many other disciplines to study political, cultural and economic phenomena in Asian traditional and contemporary societies. Asian studies forms 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.

Branches

• South Asian studies/Indology
  • Dravidology
    • Tamilology
• Southeast Asian studies
• East Asian studies
  • Sinology
  • Japanology
  • Korean studies
  • Okinawan studies
• Middle Eastern studies
  • Iranology
• Central Asian studies
  • Turkology
• Assyriology
• Semitology
  • Hebraic studies
• Islamic studies (often overlapping with Middle Eastern and Central Asian studies)

See also

• African studies
• Egyptology
• European studies
• Humanities
• History
• Linguistics
• Asia
• History of Asia
• History of East Asia
• History of South Asia
• History of India
• History of China
• History of Japan
• History of Korea
• China
• Korea
• History of Central Asia
• History of the Middle East
• Ancient Near East

External links

• Resources on Southeast Asian Studies

The following is a link to Asian Philosophy and Religion study only. There are many more programs offering culture, politics, economics and so on.

• Graduate Programs in Asian Studies

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