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The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japastate, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan N

The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japastate, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan N - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Germaine A. HostonPublish date:1994-09-11Pages:640
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691023342ISBN-10:691023344UPC:9780691023342Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:International Relations, AsiaBook Topic:Japan, ChinaSize:9.15 x 6.06 x 1.28 inchesWeight:1.8916Product ID:SCYW89F1KZ

The first decades of the twentieth century witnessed an explosion of nationalist sentiment in East Asia, as in Europe. This comprehensive work explores how radical Chinese and Japanese thinkers committed to social change in this turbulent era addressed issues concerning national identity, social revolution, and the role of the national state in achieving socio-economic development. Focusing on the adaptation of anarchism and then Marxism-Leninism to non-European contexts, Germaine Hoston shows how Chinese and Japanese theorists attempted to reconcile a relatively new appreciation for the nation-state with their allegiance to a vision of internationalist socialist revolution culminating in stateless socialism.

Given the influence of Western experience on Marxism, Chinese and Japanese theorists found the Marxian national question to be not merely one of whether the "working man has no country," but rather the much more fundamental issue of the relative value of Eastern and Western cultures. Marxism, argues Hoston, thus placed native Marxists in tension with their own heritage and national identity. The author traces efforts to resolve this tension throughout the first half of the twentieth century, and concludes by examining how the tension persists, as Chinese and Japanese dissidents seek identity-affirming modernity in accordance with the Western democratic model.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691023342ISBN-10:691023344UPC:9780691023342Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:International Relations, AsiaBook Topic:Japan, ChinaSize:9.15 x 6.06 x 1.28 inchesWeight:1.8916Product ID:SCYW89F1KZ
Germaine A. Hoston is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan (Princeton).
Publisher: Princeton University Press

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