Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan

Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan
Author :
Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 407
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783319651545
ISBN-13 : 3319651544
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan by : Torsten Weber

Download or read book Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan written by Torsten Weber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Asianism became a key concept in mainstream political discourse between China and Japan and how it was used both domestically and internationally in the contest for political hegemony. It argues that, from the early 1910s to the early 1930s, this contest changed Chinese and Japanese perceptions of ‘Asia’, from a concept that was foreign-referential, foreign-imposed, peripheral, and mostly negative and denied (in Japan) or largely ignored (in China) to one that was self-referential, self-defined, central, and widely affirmed and embraced. As an ism, Asianism elevated ‘Asia’ as a geographical concept with culturalist-racialist implications to the status of a full-blown political principle and encouraged its proposal and discussion vis-à-vis other political doctrines of the time, such as nationalism, internationalism, and imperialism. By the mid-1920s, a great variety of conceptions of Asianism had emerged in the transnational discourse between Japan and China. Terminologically and conceptually, they not only paved the way for the appropriation of ‘Asia’ discourse by Japanese imperialism from the early 1930s onwards but also facilitated the embrace of Sino-centric conceptions of Asianism by Chinese politicians and collaborators.


Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan Related Books

Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan
Language: en
Pages: 407
Authors: Torsten Weber
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-13 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book examines how Asianism became a key concept in mainstream political discourse between China and Japan and how it was used both domestically and interna
Asia in Japan's Embrace
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Walter Hatch
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-06-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Comprehensive and controversial, this book critically examines Japan's economic presence in Asia.
Story of China and Japan
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: James Hyde Clark
Categories: China
Type: BOOK - Published: 1894 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

China and Japan in the Global Setting
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: Akira Iriye
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The relationship between China and Japan remains among the most significant of all the worldâe(tm)s bilateral affairsâe"yet it is also the most tortured and t
Embracing Defeat
Language: en
Pages: 692
Authors: John W Dower
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-07-04 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This study of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. It examines the economic resurgence as well