title: Oriental Studies as an Academic Field and Its Prospects in Russia
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metadata.value: Lukin, Alexander V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-09-21T15:09:55Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-09-21T15:09:55Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-06
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metadata.value: Lukin A. V. Oriental Studies as an Academic Field and Its Prospects in Russia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 2, pp. 234–252. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.202 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.202
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/43981
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article analyses the evolution of the concepts of “Orient” and “Oriental Studies” throughout
  history and offers a new approach to interpreting Oriental Studies as a complex academic
  field. It also discusses the trajectories of its further development in Russia. The author believes
  that Oriental Studies should centre upon the degree to which Asian and African societies
  embraced Westernisation, mechanisms of reception of Western culture by their traditional
  non-Western structures and consequences of this reception. In accordance with this interpretation,
  Chinese studies as well as other fields that focus on major non-Western civilisations
  (Indology, Middle Eastern and African studies) fall into a broader academic category of Oriental
  studies instead of turning into mere subfields of Area Studies. The article maintains that
  it is essential to move away from Western-centrism, however, this should not be substituted
  with the opposing extremes: the ideas of supremacy of the East over the West or the theory of
  the original sin of the West and its demands to “cancel” the field of Oriental studies as “colonialist”
  or “racist”. Not only would this trend lead to a new wave of ideologization in academia,
  it may also trigger a new wave of demands to “decolonise” Russia and its academic circles.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Earth Sciences;Volume 15; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Orient
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Oriental studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: subject
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Westcentrism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: civilization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Oriental Studies as an Academic Field and Its Prospects in Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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