Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912-1933

By Torsten Weber

Book Overview

Explores the emergence of a new, affirmative discourse on Asia in the early twentieth century in the context of shifting power relations between the two countries and the rest of the worldContributes to the transnational history of geopolitical thought in East Asia, transcending national borders and moving beyond national historiographies
Analyses and compares different affirmations of Asianism, as well as criticisms and rejections of the concept, to offer a more complex understanding of Asianism than previous studies have been able to provide

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331987960X
• ISBN13: 9783319879604
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 407 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"