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Chinese Asianism, 1894-1945 (Hardcover)
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Chinese Asianism, 1894-1945 (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
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Chinese Asianism examines Chinese intellectual discussions of East
Asian solidarity, analyzing them in connection with Chinese
nationalism and Sino-Japanese relations. Beginning with texts
written after the first Sino-Japanese War of 1894 and concluding
with Wang Jingwei's failed government in World War II, Craig Smith
engages with a period in which the Chinese empire had crumbled and
intellectuals were struggling to adapt to imperialism, new and
hegemonic forms of government, and radically different epistemes.
He considers a wide range of writings that show the depth of the
pre-war discourse on Asianism and the influence it had on the rise
of nationalism in China. Asianism was a "call" for Asian unity,
Smith finds, but advocates of a united and connected Asia based on
racial or civilizational commonalities also utilized the packaging
of Asia for their own agendas, to the extent that efforts towards
international regionalism spurred the construction of Chinese
nationalism. Asianism shaped Chinese ideas of nation and region,
often by translating and interpreting Japanese perspectives, and
leaving behind a legacy in the concepts and terms that persist in
the twenty-first century. As China plays a central role in regional
East Asian development, Asianism is once again of great importance
today.
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