{"id":44,"date":"2005-10-14T04:44:35","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T09:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=44"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:06:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:06:48","slug":"boundaries-within-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2005\/10\/boundaries-within-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Boundaries within Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/japanfocus.org\/article.asp?id=418\">article<\/a> on the problem understanding Central Asia: the first problem is that nobody agrees on what or where it is. Apparently, East Asianists &#8212; China scholars, mostly &#8212; are a big part of the problem. Funny, though, since that&#8217;s where most of the actual research seems to come from. Yes, it&#8217;s a distorted historiography, as most &#8220;influence&#8221; oriented scholarship tends to be. But almost all non-Western societies start out being studied in relation to better known regions: it&#8217;s a hallmark of the early stages of a field, and it&#8217;s something that will, if the article&#8217;s comments about the rising tide of scholars from Central Asia are sound, be rectified in the next generation, as these things are.<\/p>\n<p><b>Amusing non sequitur<\/b>: An entire blog devoted to exposing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanzismatter.com\/\">badly used Chinese characters<\/a> in the West, particularly in tatoos.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/jrittenhouse\/342667.html?mode=reply\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article on the problem understanding Central Asia: the first problem is that nobody agrees on what or where it is. Apparently, East Asianists &#8212; China scholars, mostly &#8212; are a big part of the problem. Funny, though, since that&#8217;s where most of the actual research seems to come from. Yes, it&#8217;s a distorted historiography,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[96,165,119,121,126,129,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-china","category-english","category-ethnic-minorities","category-general","category-historiography","category-japan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5126,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/5126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}