Asia Through Nordic Eyes: Fifty Years of Nordic Scholarship on Asia

Contact between Asia and the Nordic countries goes back at least 500 years. Scholarly interest and exchange between the two regions took time to develop, however; for many years Nordic scholars were more focused on the Biblical world than on the Far East or Subcontinent. The explosion in academic learning from the 1960s dramatically changed this picture and by the end of the decade Asia was studied at more than 100 institutions scattered across...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8776942724
• ISBN13: 9788776942724
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
• Length: 252 Pages