East Asian studies

The East Asian Studies among the regional science. Among the East Asian Studies are essentially Sinology, Japanese and Korean Studies. These subjects have in common that they deal with economic, social, historical, cultural and other issues of these East Asian countries.

East Asian Studies as a subject taught languages ​​( Chinese / Japanese or Korean or other) and, depending on priorities knowledge of economy, society, politics, language, literature, history and / or geography oa The study courses are interdisciplinary.

In the 19th and early 20th century prevailed in these subjects still a small philological and to a certain degree always Euro-centric perspective on the study areas before; so the accusation was expressed that this would be studying the "ivory tower " from. This is subject to any change since the 1960s.

Furthermore, there are subjects such as East Asian art history that deals with specific aspects - employ the " East Asian world " - in this case the art of East Asia.