Asian Giants in Indian Works

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Though India’s contact with two of the predominant nations of East Asia, China and Japan, has been uniformly strengthened in the socio-economic, cultural, and political fields during the last few decades, it has received a special boost during the nervous nineties. And as we stand on the threshold of the 21st century and visualize the possible dawning of ‘the Asian Century’, their ties on account of increasing awareness of the intra-continental proximity are bound to assume the dimensions of queer closeness and reciprocity. It was in this extraordinary context that bibliographic exploration of the place (particularly) of the two East Asian giants of the century in publications emanating from all parts of India, was found of tremendous interest. Also, as a byproduct of a continuing indexing project on china and Japan under way at the Department of Chinese and Japanese Studies, University of Delhi, it held out the prospects of commanding exclusive and expeditious academic interest among the China and Japan specialists and scholars the world over. As this project of assembling more than a thousand references-whole books and research these related to Chinese or Japanese Studies and relevant chapters or sections in composite works unrelated to China or Japan-itself has already entailed the scanning of over forty thousand Indian publications produced during the period, 1990-96 and beyond, it was considered worthwhile to spread the compilation of references to relevant publications of the whole decade over two Parts. The present Part mirrors in a subject-wise sequence the varying trends and transitional phenomena noticed in the publications. The second Part hopefully will not only conclude the decade-long hyperactive phase of the intra-continental ties but also appropriately reflect the areas that have still remained uncovered in terms of research investigations undertaken exclusively in the Indian subcontinent.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR B.K. Kumar

Brij Kishore Kumar (b. 1938) occupies the position of Professional Senior in Documentation (equivalent to University Librarian/Professor) in the Department of Chinese and Japanese Studies, University of Delhi. Prior to this, he has held the position of the Head, Library Operations, Chinese and Japanese Studies Library, Delhi University Library System, for more than fifteen years. His presnet interests are keyed to the taks of preparing a comprehensive database on Chinese and Japanese Studies. particularly for the modern and contemporary periods of study. having been deeply involved in handling world-wide literature on China and Japan since long, he has himself exclusively contributed a large number of reviews of books to some of the leading national dailies and front-ranking research journals including china Report, Issues and Studies, and Journal of Asian Studies. He has also contributed a number of scholarly articles on contemporary Chinese socio-economic and political developments to the Indian press and research journals. In addition he has got published quite a few articles on topics related to Information Science in reputed Indian and foreign Information Science Journals. His earlier publications include: China Through Indian Eyes: A Select Bibliography, BEPI; Bibliography of English Publications in India, East Asian Panorama: A Reference Record of an Eventful Decade, and Dissertations on Chinese and Japanese Studies. His name has figured in such well-known biographical works as: Marquis Who's Who: Directory of Online Professionals (Illnois: Marquis Who's Who Inc.), References Asia: Asia's Who's Who of Men and Women of Achievement, Volume 7 (Delhi: Refacimento International), and Biography International (New Delhi: South Asia Pub. Co.).

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Title
Asian Giants in Indian Works
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8176460893
Length
xxi+170p., Index; 23cm.
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