Intellectual Hegemony of the United States and its Regional Policies toward Asia during the Cold War Period

尽管冷战时期美国对“区域研究”的政治性质进行了批判性的质疑，但仍需要更多的实证研究来揭示隐含在个体学者学术动机和研究努力之外的制度安排。本研究基于对美国、日本、泰国、香港和台湾等地的学术和慈善机构的多档案研究，考察了这些慈善机构，如福特基金会，在美国和亚洲同行的亚洲研究发展中所扮演的角色。研究表明，美国学术机构之所以能够顺利开展亚洲地区研究项目，不仅是因为其巨额的资金投入，而且也因为这些基金会的积极性和指导性，而地缘政治、历史、国内以及院系间的政治因素也是影响亚洲同行对美国举措反应的重要因素。

Despite a number of efforts to critically interrogate political nature of "area studies" in the US during the Cold War period, there still is a need for more empirical studies to reveal institutional arrangements that implicitly framed the scholarship on Asia beyond individual scholars' academic motivation and research efforts. Based on multi-archival research in various academic and philanthropic institutions in such places as the US, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, this research project examined the role that those philanthropic institutions, such as the Ford Foundation, played in the development of Asian studies in the US and its Asian counterparts. It is revealed that not only the enormous amount of funding, but also the strong initiative and guidance provided by those foundations were crucial for the introduction and smooth continuation of area studies programs on Asia in US academic institutions, while geopolitical, historical, and domestic, as well as inter-faculty, political factors were important elements that influenced the reactions to the US initiatives from its Asian counterparts.