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Asian Studies sorely lacks diversity in the ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds of its practitioners. Few will be startled to learn that the field is dominated by scholars from Asia and the West-a reality so entrenched that some may question what issue it poses or how it could be otherwise. ...

Despite temporal and geographical differences, two thinkers impacted their contexts with similar critiques of a type of reasoning they called “utilitarianism”: Zhuāngzǐ 莊子 (China, 369–286 BCE) and Ailton Krenak (Brazil, born 1953). While Zhuāngzǐ pointed out the limits of the utilitarianism defended ...