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Oriental studies is the academic field that studies Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology. In recent years, the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Middle Eastern studies and Asian studies. Traditional Oriental studies in Europe is today generally focused on the ...
The focus on Sydney ultimately resulted in the establishment of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (1975) and the New Zealand Asian Studies Society (1974) rather than a geographic expansion of OSA membership. [2] [5] The society also hosts regular seminars, the annual A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture as well as an Emerging Scholars Award. [6]
Asian studies is the term used usually in North America and Australia for what in Europe is known as Oriental studies. [1] The field is concerned with the Asian people, their cultures, languages, history and politics.
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The Chair of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney for over a quarter-century, he was a major figure in the development of Asian Studies in Australia. Having worked during World War II for the Royal Navy as a translator of Japanese, Davis studied Chinese at the University of Cambridge 1946–1948, graduating with First Class Honours.
The journal is intended for specialists in Oriental studies, historians, philologists, philosophers, political scientists, religious studies scholars, museologists, university professors and students, and all those interested in the history, languages and cultures of the countries of the Orient and their contacts with Ukraine.
26th – Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Congress of Orientalists : New Delhi 4–10 January 1964, ed. R N Dandekar (Poona Bhandarkar Oriental Research Inst. 1970). 27th – Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Congress of Orientalists. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 13–19 August 1967.