|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910960663903321 |
|
|
Autore |
Sleeboom-Faulkner Margaret <1961-> |
|
|
Titolo |
Academic nations in China and Japan : framed in concepts of nature, culture and the universal / / Margaret Sleeboom |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-134-37614-6 |
1-134-37615-4 |
0-203-56341-7 |
0-415-31545-X |
1-280-05472-7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Nissan Institute/RoutledgeCurzon Japanese studies series |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Classificazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
National characteristics, Chinese |
National characteristics, Japanese |
Nationalism - China |
Nationalism - Japan |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-213) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
pt. 1. Framing the nation -- pt. 2. Group categorization -- pt. 3. Group-framing habits and strategies. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
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 |
|
|
|
|