The Idea of Asia
Milner, Anthony; Johnson, Deborah
Description
The idea of Asia is so easy to ridicule, and yet it tugs at the mind. It has a curious potency. It is sometimes referred to (for instance, by Australia's 1996 Boyer Lecturer, Pierre Ryckmans) as a European creation, brought into being for European purposes (Ryckmans, 1993:182). But it is much more than that. As semioticians would put it, 'Asia' is a free-floating signifier [1] - a term the exact meaning of which is not settled. The signification of 'Asia' is, in fact, in contest and it is those...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2001 |
Type: | Working/Technical Paper |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/41891 http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/41891 |
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