ABSTRACT
Post-Western Sociology is first and foremost rhizomatous in that it is constructed from connections between points located in knowledge spaces governed by very different regimes of signs and the non-correspondence of different types of situated knowledge. In South Korea, the necessity of an epistemic autonomy affirmed itself rather early. Japanese sociologists produced a form of epistemic autonomy by proposing a sociology of the transcendental subject that flirts with the idea of paving the way for a cosmopolitan humanity. In China, Japan, India and Korea, different forms of cosmopolitan imaginations are developing, translating differences and diversities of traditions and cultural influences. From theoretical discontinuities in knowledge niches the chapter aims to find either situated Chinese concepts or situated Western concepts. It presents the following situated Chinese concepts: state and economic institutions; power, Suku and political identity. The chapter illustrates shared theoretical space: migration, integration and segregation; collective action and social movements.
