Donald R. Davis’s research while affiliated with University of Texas at Austin and other places

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Publications (3)


Three Principles for an Asian Humanities: Care First . . . Learn From . . . Connect Histories
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February 2014

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The Journal of Asian Studies

Donald R. Davis

In order to express what is uniquely accomplished in the field, Asian studies should be reconceived as Asian humanities and should adhere to three principles: care first, learn from, and connect histories. A review of the history and criticisms of Asian studies as a field calls for a positive theoretical articulation of what the best scholarship in Asian studies does and has done. The principles advocated here are not exclusive to Asian studies and should be extended to all area studies fields, but they are offered as a way to understand Asian studies as an essential field of the university and the academy, unique because of its content but common in spirit with the humanities generally.


Comments on "Mineral Concentration of Broccoli Florets in Relation to Year of Cultivar Release," by Mark W. Farnham, Anthony P. Keinath, and Michael A. Grusak, in Crop Science 2011 51:2721-2727

September 2013

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Citations (2)


... Of course, this experience was specific to my time as a student in Berlin in the early 2000s and should not easily and prematurely be projected onto any other place of higher education that offers these two fields of study. And more importantly, I do not suggest here a clear-cut hierarchy between theory and praxis as it is often displayed in the judgmental contrast between disciplines and area studies that one frequently encounters (Chen 2010;Davis 2015). In fact, I primarily consider myself a philologist that tries to combine elements of my text-critical and -analytical skillset with my training in comparative literature and cultural studies (Spivak 2003). ...

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Reception History and Early Chinese Classics
Three Principles for an Asian Humanities: Care First . . . Learn From . . . Connect Histories
  • Citing Article
  • February 2014

The Journal of Asian Studies

... There was insufficient published data to allow for comparison of cereal products. Davis (2013), in a Letter to the Editor commenting on the study by Bruggraber et al., noted that the observed differences in Fe content are only "apparent" for several reasons. Bruggraber et al. depended on historical data from different laboratories in different eras. ...

Declines in iron content of foods
  • Citing Article
  • March 2013

The British journal of nutrition