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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 ...
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.
"Asian" in Great Britain sometimes refers to people who come specifically from South Asia (in particular Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Iran, and Afghanistan), since British Asians as a whole make up approximately 9.3% of the population within the United Kingdom, and people of an ethnically South Asian background ...
Eastern philosophy (also called Asian philosophy or Oriental philosophy) includes the various philosophies that originated in East and South Asia, including Chinese philosophy, Japanese philosophy, Korean philosophy, and Vietnamese philosophy, which are dominant in East Asia; [1] and Indian philosophy (including Hindu philosophy, Jain ...
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Each contestant is given ten subjects to choose from (such as spelling, maths or social studies), each of which is associated with a grade level; there are two questions per grade, from first to fifth. In 2008, this changed to a 1st and 2nd grade question, two 3rd grade questions and three 4th and 5th grade questions.
Beginning in 1960, the society has published a scholarly journal, entitled Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia from 1960 to 2019, and JOSAH: Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities from the 2020-21 issue. [7] It is the oldest continuing Asia-focused journal in Australasia.
2009, Neville Meaney, “The problem of nationalism and race: Australia and Japan in World War I and World War II” [5] 2010, Michael Walsh, "Voices from the north: linguistic connections between Asia and Aboriginal Australia" [6] [7] 2011, Bonnie McDougall, “Ambiguities of power: The social space of translation relationships” [8]