What country of origin does Yu Ying-shih and Asian studies have in common?
Asian studies Asian studies, a term used usually in North America for Oriental studies and is concerned with the Asian people, 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.
Sin Chow-Yiu Professor Sin Chow-Yiu is the Hon-Yin and Suet-Fong Chan Professor in Chinese and the Head of Department of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong. He is also the Chief Editor of the "Journal of Oriental Studies".