Open AccessWhat’s Wrong with the Study of China/Countries
Author(s) -
Hans Kuijper
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
asian studies/asian studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2350-4226
pISSN - 2232-5131
DOI - 10.4312/as.2014.2.1.151-185
Subject(s) - sinology , china , philology , shackle , style (visual arts) , history , political science , sociology , literature , law , engineering , art , structural engineering , feminism
markdownabstractIn this paper the thesis is submitted that there is something fundamentally amiss in Western Sinology: ‘China experts’ either pretend to be knowledgeable about everything related to China, in which case they cannot be taken seriously, or–– eventually––admit not to be scientific all-rounders with respect to the country, in which case they cannot be called ‘China experts’. \ud\udThe author expects no tenured professor of Chinese Studies/History to share this view. Having exposed the weakness, indeed the scandal of old-style Sinology, he also points out the way junior Sinologists should go. The fork in that road is two-pronged: translating or collaborating