scholarly journals The Idea of the Anavatapta Lake in India and Its Adoption in East Asia

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Yang Gao
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Religion And Literature ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Human World ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
A Site ◽  
Geopolitical Discourse ◽  
Local Cultures

This article centers around the Anavatapta Lake. In East Asian pictorialization of worldview, Maps of Mt. Sumeru, which depict the mountain at the core of the world, are often paired with Maps of India, in which the Anavatapta Lake occupies a significant place. When the concept of the Anavatapta Lake was transmitted from India to China and Japan, it was understood through the lens of local cultures and ideologies, and the lake was envisioned as a site spatially connected to various places in China and Japan. As a result, the idea of the Indian lake located at the center of the human world helped China and Japan formulate their statuses and positions within the religious and geopolitical discourse of Buddhist cosmology. Through investigations of both pictorial and textual sources, this article explores the significance and place that the Anavatapta Lake occupied in East Asian religion and literature.

East Asian Exceptionalism to Western Populism and Migration Crisis

2018 ◽  
pp. 196-210
Author(s):  
John Lie
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Northeast Asia ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The World ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
And Migration

In the 2010s, the world is seemingly awash with waves of populism and anti-immigration movements. Yet virtually all discussions, owing to the prevailing Eurocentric perspective, bypass East Asia (more accurately, Northeast Asia) and the absence of strong populist or anti-immigration discourses or politics. This chapter presents a comparative and historical account of East Asian exceptionalism in the matter of migration crisis, especially given the West’s embrace of an insider-outsider dichotomy superseding the class- and nation-based divisions of the post–World War II era. The chapter also discusses some nascent articulations of Western-style populist discourses in Northeast Asia, and concludes with the potential for migration crisis in the region.

scholarly journals Urban Developmentalism in East Asia: Geopolitical Economies, Spaces of Exception, and Networks of Expertise

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Doucette ◽  
Bae-Gyoon Park
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Urban Research ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Asian Urbanization ◽  
A Site ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Planning Policies

This special issue highlights an exciting range of contemporary, interdisciplinary research into spatial forms, political economic processes, and planning policies that have animated East Asian urbanization. To help situate this research, this introductory article argues that the urban as form, process, and imaginary has often been absent from research on East Asian developmentalism; likewise, the influence of developmentalism on East Asian urbanization has remained under-examined in urban research. To rectify this issue, we propose a concept of urban developmentalism that is useful for highlighting the nature of the urban as a site of and for developmentalist intervention in East Asia. We then outline the contribution made by the articles in this special issue to three key themes that we feel are germane for the study of urban developmentalism across varied contexts: geopolitical economies, spaces of exception, and networks of expertise.

scholarly journals Towards the Institutionalization of Cosmopolitan Law-Making

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 1141
Author(s):  
Yoshiaki Sato
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
East Asian ◽  
International Norms ◽  
The World ◽  
East Asian Community ◽  
Cosmopolitan Law ◽  
Original Concept ◽  
Law Making

The emergence of de facto cosmopolitan law-making activities, as well as the institutionalization of cosmopolitan law-making, is gradually changing the transnational legal landscape. This article explains the original concept of cosmopolitan law as it was first put forward by Immanuel Kant and describes how the emergence of de facto cosmopolitan law-making activities has resulted in the adoption of various treaties and international norms. It identifies the two types of institutionalization of cosmopolitan law-making as a hybrid of international and cosmopolitan law-making, and a purer version of cosmopolitan law-making. The article then argues that in order for cosmopolitan law-making to be recognized as legitimate, cosmopolitans must limit themselves to advisory roles and remain accountable to stakeholders around the world. The article concludes by discussing the proposed “Draft Charter of the East Asian Community” as an epoch-making proposal for regional integration in East Asia.

scholarly journals CURRENT STATUS AND PROBLEMS OF THE CATCH STATISTICS ON ANGUILLID EEL FISHERY IN INDONESIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoshi Honda ◽  
Dina Muthmainnah ◽  
Ni Komang Suryati ◽  
Dian Oktaviani ◽  
Somboon Siriraksophon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Commodity Chains ◽  
Indonesian Government ◽  
The World ◽  
Glass Eels ◽  
Catch Statistics ◽  
Yellow Eels

To compensate the decline of the populations of temperate anguillid eels, tropical anguillid eels become getting attention of East Asian eel market in recent years. Many eel farms have been established in Java Island to culture tropical anguillid eels intending to export the products to East Asia. Since eel farming is reliant on wild-caught anguillid eels such as glass eels, elvers and yellow eels, these eel seeds have been captured in various places in Indonesia. However, it is still unknown that how much of tropical anguillid eels are caught as seeds for eel farming. This study showed two different patterns of the commodity chains of eel seeds from both Sukabumi Regency and Bengkulu Province to the eel farms in Java Island. Official catch statistics on anguillid eels found in both Sukabumi Regency and Bengkulu Province were also analyzed on their features and problems underlied. Considering the sustainable use of anguillid eel resources and critical stances on exploitation of eel seeds from all over the world, the Indonesian government should take an immediate action for developing the national catch statistics on anguillid eel fishery as soon as possible.  

scholarly journals Attracting Neighbors: Soft Power Competition in East Asia

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-96
Author(s):  
Sohn Yul
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Regional Powers ◽  
Regional Leadership ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
Zero Sum

This article explores the dynamics of competition by means of soft power among two key regional states, China and Japan. It demonstrates that, in their embrace of regionalism, each has concentrated soft power on East Asian neighbors by competitively proposing regional visions that would best position it in the regional leadership stakes. China took the initiative, Japan responded quickly, and China is now striking back. This does not necessarily mean that the liberal claim that East Asia is "ripe for cooperation" is misplaced. Nor does it suggest that the realist claim of "ripe for rivalry" better represents the reality. Rather, this article argues that regional powers compete in order to attract neighbors. Since this contest involves embracing others, it is not necessarily a zero-sum game. This article evaluates the success, or lack thereof, of the two countries` efforts in order to learn what they imply for Korea.

scholarly journals Cognitive dualism of intuition and reason in Huserls phenomenology

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-104
Author(s):  
Brankica Popovic
Keyword(s):  
Edmund Husserl ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
Rational Basis ◽  
Intuitive Knowledge ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Cognitive Experience ◽  
Human World ◽  
The One ◽  
Object Of Knowledge

From the title itself is transparent issues being discussed in this paper, and this is the attitude of intuition and science, processed phenomenological method. This issue is important when it comes to the interest of the authors in this subject and attachment to Edmund Husserl. The reasons are still some situations and the author Faced with adequate problems. In this case, the crisis in which we find along with the author that a similar crisis in which he was Edmund Husserl. Return the original, the one fundamental common in times of crisis - as well as that of her mother?s lap. As there are reasons that led to it time their inevitable reduction in order to clear the path to move ahead more effectively with prospects. These reasons are cognitive-methodological, because knowing them and guided methodology lead to the creation of the human world, mostly poor and inhumane, and the necessary correction. The cognitive method that offers to the phenomenological method, the core of which consists of intuition, reduction of intentionality, as opposed to those methods that dominate the rational basis. In fact, in a dualistic relationship rational and intuitive knowledge lies the possibility of establishing a better foothold as a refuge or unity of the world and man, and providing opportunities for their improvement or humane given. Thoroughness is the knowledge, the cognitive experience as such it contains always one intentio, a ?producing? a moment which is always related to some objectivity, and that it is not this objectivity nor mere subjectivity, but one in which the both meet. Thus, the intention and the secret lies the foundation for understanding the world, and she in turn in its nakedness is always a straightforward procedure as the immediate unity of subject and object of knowledge or something intuitive.

Industrial Transformation in the Developing World

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Rock ◽  
David P. Angel
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Policy Integration ◽  
Industrial Growth ◽  
Industrial Transformation ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Global Sustainability ◽  
The World

Grow first, clean up later' environmental strategies in the developing economies of East Asia pose a critical regional and global sustainability challenge in this area of continuing rapid urban-based industrial growth which is the most polluted region in the world. Using detailed case studies and rigorous empirical analyses Rock and Angel show that East Asian governments have found institutionally unique ways to overcome the sustainability challenge, thus proving an important antidote to those who argue that poor countries cannot afford to clean up their environment whilst their economies remain under-developed. The authors, leading experts in the field, demonstrate that low income economies outside East Asia can also use the same policy integration effectively.

The Tribute System and the World Imagined in Early Modern East Asia

2021 ◽  
pp. 030582982110506
Author(s):  
Ji-Young Lee
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
International Order ◽  
Rightful Place ◽  
The World ◽  
Tribute System ◽  
International Systems ◽  
Oriented Approach

The field of international relations has long treated the Westphalian system and states in the territorial sovereign sense as the standard or ‘normal’ in IR. The World Imagined by Hendrik Spruyt boldly challenges this habit as the biases of our times and instead brings non-European historical international systems into their rightful place in our study of international order and international relations theorising more generally. Unpacking Spruyt’s discussion of ‘the East Asian interstate society’, the article argues that an in-depth examination of what is known as a ‘tribute system’ and early modern East Asian historical orders richly illuminates the book’s arguments on the heterogeneity and diversity of order-building practices. It also argues that from a practice-oriented approach, the experience of early modern East Asia presents a compelling case that legitimation holds the key to explaining order building processes at both the domestic and international levels, with legitimation at these two levels working in tandem.

International Order in Historical East Asia: Tribute and Hierarchy Beyond Sinocentrism and Eurocentrism

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Kang
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
International Order ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Sovereign Equality ◽  
The World ◽  
Western Experience

AbstractIR theorizing about international order has been profoundly, perhaps exclusively, shaped by the Western experiences of the Westphalian order and often assumes that the Western experience can be generalized to all orders. Recent scholarship on historical East Asian orders challenges these notions. The fundamental organizing principle in historical East Asia was hierarchy, not sovereign equality. The region was characterized by hegemony, not balance of power. This emerging research program has direct implications for enduring questions about the relative importance of cultural and material factors in both international orders and their influence on behavior—for describing and explaining patterns of war and peace across time and space, for understanding East Asia as a region made up of more than just China, and for more usefully comparing East Asia, Europe, and other regions of the world.

Regionalism and Free Trade Agreements in East Asia

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inkyo Cheong
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Free Trade Agreements ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
Northeast Asian

This paper gives an overview of the progress of regionalism in East Asia and examines the background of the recent embrace of trade agreements by China, Japan, and South Korea. It discusses the progress toward free trade agreements (FTAs) within East Asia and offers reasons for their slow development. The impacts of eight hypothetical East Asian FTAs are estimated using a computable generalized equilibrium model. The model predicts that countries will benefit from both bilateral FTAs and regional FTAs (such as a Northeast Asian FTA and an East Asian FTA); however, greater economic benefits would be gained under regional FTAs than under bilateral FTAs. Although the simulation used in the study estimates that a Northeast Asian FTA and an East Asian FTA would bring a similar level of economic benefits, results indicate that greater benefits would accrue under an East Asian FTA. Discussions of a Japan–ASEAN FTA are under way, after talks of an FTA between ASEAN and China blossomed in late 2000. China and Japan are competitively promoting bilateral FTAs with ASEAN. As discussions of an FTA with ASEAN heat up in China and Japan, South Korea has also begun reviewing the economic feasibility of an FTA with ASEAN. If China, Japan, and South Korea competitively pursue bilateral FTAs with ASEAN, this may result in several important problems, including spaghetti bowl effects, a hub-and-spoke dilemma, or struggles for regional leadership. This paper tries to show that an East Asian FTA covering the whole region is economically desirable and stresses that East Asian countries should introduce a regionwide FTA, rather than multiple bilateral or subregional FTAs. An East Asian FTA can be realized only in the long term because of economic, political, and social obstacles. East Asia, which already lags behind other regions in terms of regionalism, should not passively wait for the establishment of an East Asian FTA, which is likely to take some time to be established.

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