Asian studies is a field in Cultural studies that is concerned with the meaning and practices of everyday life among Asian peoples. Within the Asian sphere, Asian studies combines aspects of sociology, and cultural anthropology to study cultural phenomena in Asian traditional and industrial societies. Asian studies forms a field of post-graduate study in many universities.

In his book Introducing Cultural Studies, Ziauddin Sardar lists the following five main characteristics of cultural studies:

• Cultural studies aims to examine its subject matter in terms of cultural practices and their relation to power.
• It has the objective of understanding culture in all its complex forms and of analysing the social and political context in which culture manifests itself.
• It is both the object of study and the location of political criticism and action.
• It attempts to expose and reconcile the division of knowledge, to overcome the split between tacit (cultural knowledge) and objective (universal) forms of knowledge.
• It has a commitment to a moral evaluation of modern society and to a radical line of political action.

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mediafound (Media Foundation) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:56:46 -0000
Asian School of Media Studies Celebrated 5th Festival of Short Films http://bit.ly/5jHpvm
There's a major in Asian Studies O_O I can't believe we've become test subjects to those caucasians O_O http://myloc.me/2lrHK
Twit_A_Holic (KarnallisaDesmyHalim) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:55:26 -0000
There's a major in Asian Studies O_O I can't believe we've become test subjects to those caucasians O_O http://myloc.me/2lrHK
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Is Solar The Major Influence On Climate Cooling & Warming? Multiple Asian Peer-Research Studies Confirm Solar Impac... http://bit.ly/8yjEZh
have had a collaborative paper accepted for review for Critical Asian Studies journal - nice way to go into my xmas holiday break!
lorenagibson (Lorena Gibson) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:02:09 -0000
have had a collaborative paper accepted for review for Critical Asian Studies journal - nice way to go into my xmas holiday break!
Asian School of Media Studies Celebrated 5th Festival of Short Films http://bit.ly/68yI9c
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