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The Politics of Time in China and Japan - Back to the Future (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Time in China and Japan - Back to the Future (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Approaches to History
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Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary
approach, this volume shows how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals
mobilized the past to create a better future. It is especially
significant today given a world where, amidst tensions within Asia
and the rise of China, East Asian intellectuals and governments
constantly find new political meanings in their traditions. The
essays illuminate how throughout Chinese and Japanese history,
thinkers constantly weaved together nationalism, internationalism,
and a politics of time. This volume explores a broad range of
subjects such as premodern and early modern attempts to conjure a
politics of Confucianism, twentieth-century Japanese Marxist
interpretations of Buddhism, and Japanese and Chinese endeavors to
imagine a new world order. In sum, this book shows us why
understanding East Asian pasts are essential to making sense of
ideological trends in contemporary China and Japan. For example,
without understanding Confucianism and how modern intellectuals in
China grappled with this body of thought, we would be unable to
make sense of the Chinese government's current promotion of the
Chinese classics. This book will interest students and scholars of
political science, history, Asian studies, sociology, and
philosophy.
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