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The Challenge of Studying the Pacific as a “Global Asia”: Problematizing Deep-Rooted Institutional Hindrances for Bridging Asian Studies and Asian American Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2022

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Eiichiro Azuma*
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Eiichiro Azuma (eazuma@sas.upenn.edu) is Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Abstract

This essay aims to address the structural barriers that deter the study of “Global Asias”—or even something smaller in scale, the study of the “Pacific”—in the context of the institutional split between Asian studies and Asian American studies.

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archivecartographygraduate trainingJapanese American historymodern Japanese historyPacificprofessionalization
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Forum: Global Asias
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 80 , Issue 4 , November 2021 , pp. 1023 - 1031
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022

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