Year: 2009
Type: book
Abstract: Series consists of Monographs and Edited Volumes.The aim of the Series is to promote Asia-Europe Studies.The Series includes comparative research on Europe and Asia and results from cooperation between European and Asian scholars.The International Institute for Asian Studies stimulates scholarship on Asia and is instrumental in forging research networks among Asia scholars worldwide.The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a postdoctoral research centre based in Leiden and Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Its main objective is to encourage the interdisciplinary and comparative study of Asia and to promote national and international cooperation in the field.The institute focuses on the humanities and social sciences and, where relevant, on their interaction with other sciences.IIAS acts as an international mediator, bringing various parties together, working as a clearinghouse of knowledge and information.This entails activities such as providing information services, hosting academic organisations dealing with Asia constructing international networks, and setting up international cooperative projects and research programmes.In this way, IIAS functions as a window on Europe for non-European scholars and contributes to the cultural rapprochement between Asia and Europe.
Author: Masae Kato
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2165990656