The Category of Asian Studies in Chile: About the Object and Its Rules

This research article consists of a study on the category of Asian Studies in Chile. The work aims to describe, synchronously, three instances that characterize its contingency: first, the process of objectivation of "Asia"; second, the rules that enable its enunciability and field within knowledge; and, third, the central discourses that intertwine it. Thus, this work proposes that the category of Asian Studies in Chile is composed of at least three rules of enunciation: the notion of bridging, practicality and similarity. Such concepts allow the limitation and organization of the different discursive regions of Asian Studies, the range of things it can say and the ways in which Asia occurs as an object of study.