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Comments on the ‘Chinese Studies and the Disciplines’ Symposium (See JAS, Aug., 1964): A Lone Cheer for Sinology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

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I enter this controversy from a somewhat curious position: I began life as a psysical geographer, graduated in the high tradition of European Sinology, work in the field of economic history, and administer a department of languages and literatures. I suppose I might be said to have a foot firmly in each world, and to be qualified to make a plea for the unity of Chinese studies. Additionally, the circumstances of British university teaching force my colleagues and myself to face this problem continually, since our undergraduates specialize in Chinese studies to the exclusion of all else, and we are forced in our teaching to attempt a broad coverage of both the humanities and the social disciplines, to give our students a reasonably broad academic education oriented around China.

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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964

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