The State, identity, and the national question in China and Japan
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The State, identity, and the national question in China and Japan
（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, c1994
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Bibliography: p. [535]-608
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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.
Table of Contents
PrefaceIntroduction: Identity, the National Question, and Revolutionary Change in China and Japan3Ch. 1Marxism, Revolution, and the National Question18Pt. 1The National Question and the Political Theory of Marxism in Asia43Ch. 2The National Question and Problems in the Marxist Theory of the State45Ch. 3The Encounter: Indigenous Perspectives and the Introduction of Marxism84Pt. 2Anarchism, Nationalism, and the Challenge of Bolshevism125Ch. 4Anarchism, Populism, and Early Marxian Socialism127Ch. 5Nationalism and the Path to Bolshevism175Pt. 3History, the State, and Revolutionary Change: Marxist Analyses of the Chinese and Japanese States219Ch. 6State, Nation, and the National Question in the Debate on Japanese Capitalism221Ch. 7National Identity and the State in the Controversy on Chinese Social History273Pt. 4Outcomes: The Reconciliation of Marxism With National Identity326Ch. 8Tenko: Emperor, State, and Marxian National Socialism in Showa Japan327Ch. 9Mao and the Chinese Synthesis of Nationalism, Stateness, and Marxism361Ch. 10Marxism, Nationalism, and Late Industrialization: Conclusions and Epilogue402Notes445Select Bibliography535Index609
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