초록 열기/닫기 버튼
To understand the divergence of Chinese studies in the US, I focused on the journal ‘Modern China’ as the center of critical discourses circulation. Modern China led by Philip Hwang claimed to stand for critical research, continuously raising the issues of existing researches by means of the intentions of planning project and compilation. I selected the articles of Modern China from 2003 to early 2018 as the data for keyword co-word analysis to trace the changes since the 2000s, which were not evident in previous studies. As a result, the following conclusions were drawn. First, that these researches were aware of the current issues facing China and tried to explain them in their own historical research, while adopting sociology or economics research methods in addition to traditional historical methodology. Second, various contributors including scholars from Japan and China actively participated, the most influential topic among them was gender and women-related research, which has been actively scrutinized since the foundation of the journal and elaborated with the various themes. Next to gender, Guangzhou and modernity was another prominent topic deliberated in related to religion, urbanization, Beijing, women, the Republic of China, Mao Zedong, and education. On the other hand, the topic of nationalism and economic development seemed to be evolved independently rather than through interactions among researchers, since it was closely related to editorial planning. Thus, the recent tendency and research trend of Modern China could be surmised to pursue diversifying themes having been prevailed in the 1980s. Moreover, these diversified themes were blended with each other and broaden the range.
키워드열기/닫기 버튼
Area Studies, Philip C. C. Huang, ‘Modern China’, gender, Trend of Research, Keywords Co-word Analysis
