
Publishing in Asian Studies Journals
New Books in East Asian Studies
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Are You Writing Too Readable, and You're Looking at Them With Suspicion?
In political science, for example, even if eis more variety in europe and the u k than north america, i'd like to think the north American norm is that you need a clear dependent variable. So with an agent's studies, we take it for granted, tate ti, we're writing a paper on singapore, than we would specified electoral politics and singapore. We can actually do better in area studies, however that's defined. But in disciplines, there's also this hidden problem with representativeness. There's an encouragement to make a universal grand claim out of it. And i think we want to push all disciplines to be careful and precise in position.
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