The State, identity, and the national question in China and Japan / Germaine A. Hoston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoston, Germaine A., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Politics and government--1912-1949.

China.

Politics and government.

Communism--China.

Communism.

Japan--Politics and government--1926-1945.

Japan.

Communism--Japan.

Communism--Asia.

Asia.

Physical Description:

xii, 628 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Identity, the National Question, and Revolutionary Change in China and Japan 3

Ch. 1 Marxism, Revolution, and the National Question 18

Pt. 1 The National Question and the Political Theory of Marxism in Asia 43

Ch. 2 The National Question and Problems in the Marxist Theory of the State 45

Ch. 3 The Encounter: Indigenous Perspective and the Introduction of Marxism 84

Pt. 2 Anarchism, Nationalism, and the Challenge of Bolshevism 125

Ch. 4 Anarchism, Populism, and Early Marxian Socialism 127

Ch. 5 Nationalism and the Path to Bolshevism 175

Pt. 3 History, the State, and Revolutionary Change: Marxist Analyses of the Chinese and Japanese States 219

Ch. 6 State, Nation, and the National Question in the Debate on Japanese Capitalism 221

Ch. 7 National Identity and the State in the Controversy on Chinese Social History 273

Pt. 4 Outcomes: The Reconciliation of Marxism With National Identity 326

Ch. 8 Tenko: Emperor, State, and Marxian National Socialism in Showa Japan 327

Ch. 9 Mao and the Chinese Synthesis of Nationalism, Stateness, and Marxism 361

Ch. 10 Marxism, Nationalism, and Late Industrialization: Conclusions and Epilogue 402.

Notes:

Includes bibiographical references and index.

ISBN:

0691078734 :

0691023344

OCLC:

29634279