Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan: Asianism discourse and the contest for hegemony, 1912-1933
In: Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series
Intro -- Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Topic and Scope -- Limitations -- Theory and Methods: Concepts and Discourse -- Orientalism and Self-orientalization -- State of the Field -- The Structure of This Book -- Chapter 2 Studying Asianism: The Impact and Legacy of Takeuchi Yoshimi -- Takeuchi Yoshimi's Asianism -- Defining Asianism -- Asianism and Canons -- Asianism and Dichotomies -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Asia Becomes an ism: Early Chinese and Japanese Asianism -- 'Asia' Before Asianism -- 'Asia' in Meiji Japan -- 'Asia' Becomes a Principle -- Asianism as a Chinese Trick? -- Sun Yat-sen's and Dai Jitao's Appeals to Asianism -- The Mahan-Chirol Controversy about Japan's Asianity -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Asianism During World War One: Macro-Nationalism or Micro-Worldism? -- The Significance of World War One -- Liberal Critique of Asianism -- Nationalist Critique of Asianism -- Tokutomi Sohō's Asian Monroe Doctrine -- Military Conceptions and the Persistence of a Consciousness of Crisis -- Asianism as Civilizational Critique -- Liberal and Cosmopolitan Asianism -- Sawayanagi Masatarō's Cultural Asianism -- Ukita Kazutami's New Asianism -- Asianism as the 'White Peril' Theory -- Japanese and Chinese Asianism in China -- Asianism Discourse in the Dongfang Zazhi -- Dai Jitao's Criticism and Sun Yat-Sen's Affirmations -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Racialization of 'Asia' in the Post-Versailles Period -- The Asianist Moment at Versailles -- Asianism and Self-determination -- Asianism's Penetration of Political Discourse -- Asianist Reactions to the American Immigration Legislation of 1924 -- The Special Edition on Greater Asianism of the Nihon Oyobi Nihonjin (October 1924) -- Shiga Shigetaka's Repudiation of Asianism