This note addresses the significance of more comprehensive, culturally nuanced research being conducted and recognised internationally with regard to public administration in Asia. It appreciates that, in the field of public administration, while it might be possible to make generalisations based on certain homogeneity in the origins, contexts and patterns of administration, it is questionable to claim the relevance of administrative knowledge to all regional and national contexts. Despite Western (especially British, American and French) public administration having been the dominant paradigm with global impacts due to its colonial imposition and postcolonial imitation worldwide, there has emerged a growing assertion that public administration in East and Southeast Asia represents certain uniqueness in terms of its leading state-centric developmental role. Although state-managed economic achievements in the region have generated certain optimism in the Asian model of public administration, the construction of academic knowledge and education in public administration in most Asian countries has been based on Western colonial legacies, postcolonial administrative prescriptions, and borrowed business-type perspectives such as new public management. In response, it is relevant to explore the exogenous origins of Asian administrative knowledge, the under-representation of Asian countries and scholars in knowledge building, and the critical implications of such borrowed knowledge for public administration as a field of inquiry and practical profession.

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质疑公共行政知识的跨文化适用性：亚洲的批判视角

本说明阐述了就亚洲公共行政开展并得到国际认可的更全面，具有文化差异的研究的重要性。它认识到，在公共行政领域，虽然有可能根据行政起源，背景和模式的某些同质性进行概括，但质疑行政知识与所有区域和国家背景的相关性是令人怀疑的。尽管西方国家（尤其是英国，美国和法国）的公共行政管理由于其在全球范围内的殖民统治和后殖民主义模仿而成为具有全球影响力的主导范式，越来越多的人断言，东亚和东南亚的公共行政就其以国家为中心的主导发展作用而言，具有一定的独特性。尽管该地区由国家管理的经济成就对亚洲公共行政管理模式产生了一定的乐观情绪，但大多数亚洲国家/地区在公共行政管理方面的学术知识和教育建设是建立在西方殖民遗产，后殖民行政处方和借来的业务基础上的型观点，例如新的公共管理。因此，有必要探讨亚洲行政知识的外在渊源，亚洲国家和学者在知识建设中的代表性不足，