Narratives in East Asia and Beyond - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Using Narratives As a Research

This volume contributes to the discussion of narratives as a research method by bringing together studies that illuminate the connection between narratives and social and political practices. The scholars from diverse fields and backgrounds offer their perspectives on the theoretical and empirical approaches to using narratives as research method.

List of contents

Part I. Interdisciplinary Reflections on Narrative Analysis
Chapter 1: Narration as a Platform for Interdisciplinarity: The Inter- and Cross-Disciplinarity of the Narrative Approach
Grigorii L. Tulchinskii
Chapter 2: On Semantic Tools of Constructing of Historical Memory (in Movses Khorenatsi's History of Armenia)
Suren Zolyan
Chapter 3: Narratives in Interviews as Research Methods: A Linguistic Anthropological Perspective
Sabina M. Perrino
Part II. Narratives as a Research Method in China Studies
Chapter 4: Negotiating Sense of Belonging in Documentary Narrative: A Discourse Analysis of a Chinese Gourmet Program
Yunfeng Ge and Hong Wang
Chapter 5: Analyzing Legitimation Strategies: BRI in Covid-19 Crisis
Shubham Karmakar
Chapter 6: Narrating the BRI in Europe: Examining Agency and Positioning in the German Logistics Sector
Connor Malloy and Theo Westphal
Chapter 7: Rationalization, Polarization, and Moral Tales: Legitimation of China's Leadership in the CCTV Documentary "Daguo Waijiao"
Elizaveta Priupolina, Tanja Eckstein, and Nele Noesselt

About the author

Elizaveta Priupolina is research associate at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Tanja Daniela Eckstein is research associate and PhD candidate at the IN-EAST (Institute for East Asian Studies) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Product details

• Authors: Elizaveta Eckstein Priupolina
• Assisted by: Tanja Daniela Eckstein (Editor), Elizaveta Priupolina (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781666935332
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-533-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Relations, Sociolinguistics, East Asia, Far East