Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Remaking area studies ix
5. Part I: Reshaping Area Studies in an Era of Globalization
6. 1. Asia Pacific Studies in an Age of Global Modernity 1
7. 2. Remapping Area Knowledge: Beyond Global/Local 24
8. 3. Locating Asia Pacific 41
9. Part II: Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific
10. 4. The Evolution of “Area Studies” in Japan 67
11. 5. The Development of Asia Pacific Studies: A Case Study of Internationalization in Japanese Higher Education 92
12. 6. For or Before an Asia Pacific Studies Agenda? 110
13. 7. Institutional Collaborations: People, Politics, Policy 125
14. Part III: Asia Pacific Learning Communities
15. 8. Traveling Cultures: Tourism and the Virtual Classroom in Hawai‘i and Singapore 141
16. 9. Chinatown and the Virtual Classroom in Singapore and Hawai‘i 164
17. 10. Salaam Mānoa, Aloha Mindanao: Creating a Student- Centered, Real-Time, Virtual Classroom 178
18. 11. E-Learning and the Remaking of Pacific Studies: An Evolutionary Tale 196
19. Epilogue: Remaking Asia Pacific Studies 211
20. About the Contributors 225
21. Index 231