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The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan - Couverture souple

Hoston, Germaine A.

 
9780691023342: The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0691023344 ISBN 13 : 9780691023342
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1994

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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).

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691023344
ISBN 13 
9780691023342
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
644
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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