open-door policy, 3

open-ended observation, 60

One Generation of Chinese Studies in Cambridge, 109

One Nation Party, 203

oral data, 95

Oriental Languages Tripos, 169

Oriental Society of Australia (OSA), 116, 202

Oriental studies, 64, 77, 81, 110, 166–169, 176, 178

Oriental Studies Tripos, 169

orientalismSee also Said, Edward; sinology, 140, 151, 156–158, 208

orientalist paradigms, 151

Orientalists, 112, 116, 151–152, 156

Oxbridge sinological model, 115

Oxford Brookes University, 47, 50

paradigmatic divisions, 29

Parker Report

Speaking for the future: A review of the requirements of diplomacy and commerce for Asian and African languages and area studies,, 77, 112–113, 188

participants’ perceptions, 60, 77

Perry, Elizabeth, 148, 212

phenomenologySee also Husserl, Edmund, 20–21

PHILITS, 187

philology, 164

philological

approach, 151, 182, 202, 206

enterprise, 155

generalist approach, 4

tradition, 169, 184

philologically oriented, 170, 176, 187

philologically trained sinologists, 151

points of departure, 6, 20, 26

POLISOX, 187

polyhistors, 108

polymaths, 108

post-Dawkins universities, 125

pragmatism, 13, 47, 125, 201

process of fractionation, 11

qualitative research, 58, 87, 94–95, 99, 104

approach to, 58

critics of, 87

value of, 63

quasi-markets, 48

realism, 24–26

Bhaskar’s realism, 25

debate between realism and constructivismSee also Delanty, Gerard, 25

realm

of Chinese studies, xxviii, 3, 19, 171–172, 174–175, 178, 180, 194, 210, 212

concept of a, 18–19

of knowledge, xxviii, 4–5, 32, 36, 59, 80, 148, 159, 161, 172, 174, 176, 200

“as a structured and bounded territory,”See also Bloor, David, 18

Reay Report, 77, 110–111, 133, 201

regrouping of thoughts, 11

relatability, 62

research questions, 6, 9, 32, 76, 80–81

Review of Chinese Studies,, 77, 111, 175

Roberts, Gareth Sir, 136

Rudd, Kevin, 128