scholarly journals From Comparative Studies to Intercultural Studies: How Could East Asian Cultural Interaction Studies Inform Us Today?

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuetao Li ◽  
Guowei Shen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Studies ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Intercultural Studies ◽  
Interaction Studies

Comparative Studies of East Asian and Western History: Some Topics and Problems

1964 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-113
Author(s):  
George Pasti
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Statistical Study ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Comparative History ◽  
Western History ◽  
Culture Area ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Asian History ◽  
Regional Comparisons ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

The field of inquiry in comparative history, wrote Marc Bloch, may be either societies that are neighbors and contemporaries or societies that are remote from each other in time and space. Western and East Asian history as a field in connoarative studies includes both types of comparisons. Focus on such a field has a number of advantages. Among these are the wide range of similar phenomena from feudalism to imperialism, the significant number of population involved, and the variety within each culture area to make possible regional comparisons and checks. Although the inclusion of additional societies might enable statistical study, the narrower gauge provides an opportunity for more depth. The range is sufficient to avoid the pitfalls arising from knowing only one other society.

Using defamilisation typologies to study the Confucian welfare regime

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Yu ◽  
C.M. Chau ◽  
K.M. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Studies ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Welfare Capitalism ◽  
First Response

Since Esping-Andersen classified the 18 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries into the “three worlds of welfare capitalism” in 1990, the comparative studies of welfare have been dominated by the responses to this study. This paper focuses on two of these responses. The first response is concerned with the gender insensitivity of Esping-Andersen's way of categorizing the welfare regimes. The second response is concerned with the issue that the East Asian countries are under-represented in the 18 OECD countries. To make contributions to these responses, two analytical tasks are conducted. First, we build new defamilisation typologies covering both East Asian countries and OECD countries. Second, we demonstrate that the evidence generated from the typologies suggest that some of the indispensable conditions for the development of a Confucian welfare regime do not exist.

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