In recent years, the discipline of Asian Studies has struggled to adapt to a changing world and has seen a decline in student interest. A discourse about this issue has emerged that attributes this “crisis” in Asian Studies to various supposed faults in its forms of knowledge production, and that looks with hope to Asia for new forms of knowledge about the region. This paper takes issue with this discourse by employing an autoethnographic narrative to examine the ways in which mobility has affected the discipline of Asian Studies. It traces a path, followed by this author and many others, from an affective fascination with a foreign society to the professional production of knowledge. It then examines how this professional knowledge production has transformed under the influence of different forms of mobility (state-sponsored, private, and global digital), transformations that have led to the current “crisis” in Asian Studies.

近年来，亚洲研究学科努力适应瞬息万变的世界，并且学生兴趣下降。关于这一问题的讨论已经出现，将亚洲研究中的这种“危机”归因于其知识生产形式上的各种缺陷，并希望亚洲希望获得有关该地区的新知识形式。本文通过使用一种民族志叙事来研究这种话语问题，以研究流动性如何影响亚洲研究学科。它追踪了作者和许多其他人所走的道路，从对外国社会的情感迷恋到知识的专业生产。然后，它研究了这种专业知识生产如何在各种形式的流动性（国家资助，私人，