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The Sprawling World of Asia-China Studies

by Cobus van Staden

SSRC’s mapping of research on the relationship between China and Southeast, Central, South and Western Asia shows both how vast these fields are and how they differ significantly both in terms of research focus and method.

More than in Africa and Latin America, the scholarship in Asia is vast in both output and thematic richness. Despite significant differences between regions, cross-cutting trends include:

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