Fw: H-ASIA: Pressures on Asian Studies, in Canada and elsewhere

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From: "Ryan Dunch" <ryan.dunch@UALBERTA.CA>
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Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 11:57 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Pressures on Asian Studies, in Canada and elsewhere


> H-ASIA
> December 13, 2012
>
> Pressures on Asian Studies, in Canada and elsewhere
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> From: Ryan Dunch <Ryan.Dunch@ualberta.ca>
>
> From time to time on H-ASIA we have discussed the pressures on funding for
> Asian Studies at the post-secondary level in different parts of the world.
> The cuts to Title VI funding in the USA, the cancellation of Sanskrit at
> Cambridge, and the threatened redundancy of a prominent China historian at
> Sydney University are a few examples from the past few years (more can be
> found in the H-ASIA logs). On some level these incidents have all
> reflected
> broader pressures on higher education funding, and their impact on the
> humanities and social sciences in particular.
>
> With some immodesty I would like to draw the attention of H-ASIA readers
> to
> an opinion piece regarding the state of Chinese studies in Canada,
> published yesterday at
> http://www.universityaffairs.ca/canada-is-facing-a-china-knowledge-deficit.aspx.
> It represents a limited effort to think through the difficulties I have
> encountered over my past few years as a department chair in a Canadian
> public university, and to help make a pragmatic case for renewed
> investment
> in Asian language and culture programs for undergraduate and graduate
> students.
>
> I do not think we need a discussion of this article per se on H-ASIA, but
> I
> would welcome comparative analyses of the state of Asian Studies in the
> many different university systems represented among our 7000+ H-ASIA
> readers.
>
> Ryan Dunch
> University of Alberta
>
>
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