East Asian Studies

Map of East Asia

The East Asian Studies are part of the regional studies .

The East Asian studies essentially include Sinology , Japanese Studies and Korean Studies . What these subjects have in common is that they deal with economic, social, historical, cultural and other issues in these East Asian countries.

Subject

East Asian Studies as a subject provides language skills ( Chinese , Japanese or Korean, etc.) and, depending on the focus, knowledge of economics, society, politics, language, literature, history and / or geography, etc. The course is interdisciplinary.

There are also subjects such as East Asian Art History , which deal with special aspects - in this case the art of East Asia - of the "East Asian world".

history

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, to a certain extent, a Eurocentric view of the study areas prevailed in these subjects ; the accusation was raised that these were being studied from the “ ivory tower ”. Dealing with this allegation and the reactions to it are very different.

literature

• Hartmut Walravens (ed.): On the history of East Asian studies in Europe: Abel Rémusat (1788-1832) and Julius Klaproth's environment (1783-1835) . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1999. ISBN 978-3-44704144-7

Web links

• Asian Studies: Know-how for regional experts (studieren.de)
• East Asian Studies in the GDR and the New Federal States (PDF)

• Seminar for Oriental Languages ​​at the Free University of Berlin
• Faculty for East Asian Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum
• Institute for East Asian Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen
• Institute for East Asian Studies at Heidelberg University
• East Asian seminar at the University of Cologne
• East Asia Institute of the University of Ludwigshafen
• Institute for East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna