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Asiacentrism, Asio-centrism, or Asiacentricity is a term denoting an ethnocentric perspective that regards Asia (as in Asian American, a racial concept in US society which includes people of East, Southeast and South Asian descent) to be either superior, central, or unique relative to other continents or countries, in either history or at present. This can take the form of ascribing to Asia unwarranted significance or supremacy at the cost of the rest of the world.〔(Asiacentrism and Asian American Studies? ) - Retrieved 23 July 2013. Thomas Wier - (Dept. of Linguistics )〕 The concept arose since the 1990s in the context of a projected Asian Century, the expected economic and cultural dominance of Asia (primarily China) in the 21st century. == Asian American Studies == Paul Wong, Meera Manvi, and Takeo Hirota Wong proposed “Asiacentrism” in the 1995 special issue of ''Amerasia Journal'' on “Thinking Theory in Asian American Studies.” They envisioned Asiacentrism both as a critique of hegemonic Eurocentrism in theory building in the humanities and social sciences and as a post-Orientalist epistemological paradigm in Asian American Studies. They suggested that there is a need to tap into Asian traditions of thought for analyzing Asian American behaviors and for advancing global knowledge in the human interest. In their view, Asiacentrism may be able to offer an alternative Asian perspective grounded in an awareness of the dynamics of a postcolonial world.〔Paul Wong, Meera Manvi, and Takeo Hirota Wong, “Asiacentrism and Asian American Studies?,” in Michael Omi and Dana Takagi (Eds.), Thinking Theory in Asian American Studies (Special Issue), ''Amerasia Journal'', Vol. 21, Nos. 1/2, 1995, pp. 137-147.〕 Wong, Manvi, and Wong also submitted that Asiacentrism can be a paradigmatic way of integrating Asian American Studies and Asian Studies by acknowledging the colonial histories, recognizing the common interests, and recovering the cultural roots. They stressed that Asian American Studies should play an important role in decolonizing Asian Studies by interrogating its Eurocentric legacies.〔Paul Wong, Meera Manvi, and Takeo Hirota Wong, “Asiacentrism and Asian American Studies?,” in Michael Omi and Dana Takagi (Eds.), Thinking Theory in Asian American Studies (Special Issue), ''Amerasia Journal'', Vol. 21, Nos. 1/2, 1995, pp. 146-147.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Asiacentrism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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