Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan

Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912-1933

Torsten Weber (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XXI, 407 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-65153-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Torsten Weber is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Humanities Section at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo, Japan.

1 Introduction.- 2 Studying Asianism: The Impact and Legacy of Takeuchi Yoshimi.- 3 Asia becomes an 'ism': Early Chinese and Japanese Asianism.- 4 Asianism during World War One: Macro-Nationalism or Micro-Worldism?.- 5 The Radicalization of 'Asia' in the post-Versailles Period.- 6 The Regionalization of 'Asia': Asianism from Below and its Failure.- 7 Asianism from Above: The Realisation of 'Asia' in Manchuria.- 8 Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
Zusatzinfo	XXI, 407 p. 8 illus., 2 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	848 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Schlagworte	Asian History • East Asia • General & World History • General & World History • Geopolitics • Historiography • History • History: specific events & topics • History: specific events & topics • imperialism • internationalism • Interwar • modern history • Pan-Asian • Political History • Political Science & Theory • Political Science & Theory • Socialism • World History, Global and Transnational History
ISBN-10	3-319-65153-6 / 3319651536
ISBN-13	978-3-319-65153-8 / 9783319651538
Zustand	Neuware