"Asian" hermeneutics

Recently, I've been toying around with the idea of an "Asian" interpretive method. Of course, the term "Asian" is necessarily reductive, but the question remains; How would we go about even looking at such a topic? It would have at its advantages already Western thought at its disposable, of which particular importance would be ethnic boundaries, feminist critique, political theory. However, these critiques are all bound up in the larger, perhaps Western, idea that "what-actually-happened-is-actually-true." What if, as Asian religions traditionally tend to do anyways, dispense with historical reality as the end-all-be-all of truth, since they may naturally be more akin and sensitive to the power of myth and narrative than a Western audience?

The question then is, where do we begin to discover what is authentically Asian? Are we looking for an "authentically" Asian, or is it something that is simply "obvious?" (I question this, because authenticity is often tied to historical verification, of which I assert, is not so pressing an issue in Asian religion) Would it be trying to mine through ancient Asian texts and apply categories found in those texts unto Western texts? (But then, "mining" the text for theological datum might also be fundamentally a "western" understanding of what texts ought to be!). Or perhaps something more like a tabula rasa approach; ask an old Chinese farmer (who already embodies the authentic Asian?) to read a text and tell him to read it back to you in his own words, and see what is most stressed and what is elided.

More so, this large question ought to be a rising question in an Asia that is embracing Christianity, particularly in China and Korea, and no doubt, North Korea when it opens up. If we do not have something ready before China is Christianized, then perhaps Asia is doomed to make the mistakes of Western Christianity all over again.