Chinese Asianism, 1894-1945 / / Craig A. Smith.

• Superior document: Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, Supplement 2021
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Craig A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill | Harvard University Asia Center,, [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, Supplement 2021.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

"Asianism was a "call" for Asian unity, Smith finds, but advocates of a united and connected Asia based on racial or civilizational commonalities also utilized the packaging of Asia for their own agendas, to the extent that efforts towards international regionalism spurred the construction of Chinese nationalism. Asianiam shaped Chinese ideas of nation and region, often by translating and interpreting Japanese perspectives, and leaving behind a legacy in the concepts and terms that persist in the twenty-first century. As China plays a central role in regional East Asian development, Asianism is once again of great importance today"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Lips and teeth : uniting with Japan : enthusiasm and disdain -- Jaw and jowls : Confucian Asianism in Japan's Chinatowns -- Same script, same race -- Asia for the Asians : eastern civilization and the great war -- Toward datong : Li Dazhao and cosmopolitan -- The kingly way : Sun Yat-Sen's reconceptualization of Asia -- The weak and small nations : organizing Asian unity in Shanghai and Beijing -- The international of nations : the Guomindang as Asia's leader -- Mutual glory : wartime propaganda and peace with Japan.