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.
Chen Kuan-Hsing Chen Kuan-Hsing () is an intellectual (based in Taiwan) who works in the field of inter-Asian Cultural Studies. He has been a co-editor (with Chua Being Huat, NUS) of the journal "Inter-Asia Cultural Studies"since 2000, as a continuation of the Trajectories: Towards a new internationalist localism Conferences (see Trajectories, Roulade, 1998). Author of "Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization" (Duke University Press, 2010) and numerous other publications, his approach to cultural studies has been described as one of calling for"'Asia as method'... the basic idea being to multiply points of reference within Asia so as to de-imperialize and de-colonize.