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The unfinished modernization of the Asian continent and its many internal
conflicts should be a primary focus and aim of Asian HE knowledge production.
They should be able to portrait, explain, and ease the numerous and manifold Asian
problems. If HE research were to be taken as an independent field of study in Asia,
there is a need to look at it from a historical and philosophical standpoint in order to
connect dated and outstanding problems in Asia with local-regionally produced
knowledge. To do so, it has to reflectively reexamine its own subjectivity and to
get out of an intellectual and emotional chasm for an uncritically embracing
borrowed model of HE.
Asian HE knowledge production has faced colossal challenges in every stage of
its process, from subjectivity to methodology through knowledge transfer. Asia was
the reference point for the self-imagery of the West, that is, the West became West
by looking at itself in the mirror of the East (Hall 1992 ). What is suggested here is
different: Asia will better understand what she is with Asia as a reference point of
herself, and never in the usual paradigm of the West and the rest.
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