The Politics of Time in China and Japan: Back to the Future

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Back to the Future-Rethinking Politics and Time -- 1 The Politics of the Past in China and Japan -- 2 Japanese Critiques of Linear Time in Global Context -- 3 Umemoto Katsumi, Subjective Nothingness, and the Critique of Civil Society -- 4 Tianxia and Postwar Japanese Sinologists' Vision of the Chinese Revolution: the Cases of Nishi Junzō and Mizoguchi Yūzō -- 5 Toward a New World Order: Reading Tianxia with Hegel and Marx -- Coda: Futures of Chinese Politics of the Past -- Index.

Introduction: Back to the future-rethinking politics and time -- The politics of the past in China and Japan -- Japanese critiques of linear time in global context -- Umemoto Katsumi, subjective nothingness, and the critique of civil society -- Tianxia and postwar Japanese sinologists' vision of the Chinese revolution : the cases of Nishi Junzō and Mizoguchi Yūzō -- Toward a new world order : reading Tianxia with Hegel and Marx -- Coda: Futures of Chinese politics of the past.

Introduction: Back to the future-rethinking politics and time -- The politics of the past in China and Japan -- Japanese critiques of linear time in global context -- Umemoto Katsumi, subjective nothingness, and the critique of civil society -- Tianxia and postwar Japanese sinologists' vision of the Chinese revolution : the cases of Nishi Junzō and Mizoguchi Yūzō -- Toward a new world order : reading Tianxia with Hegel and Marx -- Coda: Futures of Chinese politics of the past.