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East Asian Studies

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East Asian Studies at University of Edinburgh

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: social
University website: www.ed.ac.uk

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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.
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