The limits of Westernization : American and East Asian intellectuals create modernity, 1860-1960 / Jon Thares Davidann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidann, Jon Thares, 1961- author.

Series:

Routledge studies in modern history ; 39.

Routledge studies in modern history ; 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East and West.

Civilization.

East Asia--Civilization--19th century.

East Asia.

East Asia--Civilization--20th century.

East Asia--Civilization--American influences.

Physical Description:

xiii, 270 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"The rise of East Asia from the ashes of World War II in the late twentieth century has led to searching questions about the role the region will play in the world. The possibility that China will overtake the United States as a super power suggests the twenty-first century could become an Asian century. Given the dynamism of a new Asia, this study provides a crucial analysis of the origins and development of modern thought in East Asia and the United States, reevaluating the influence of the United States on East Asia in the twentieth century and giving greater voice to East Asians in the growth of their own ideas of modernity. While an abundance of scholarship exists on postwar modernization, there is a gap in the prewar origins and development of modern ideas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In that time, influential intellectuals on both sides of the Pacific shaped modernity by rejecting the old order, and embracing progress, the new domain of science, democracy, racial relativism, internationalism, and civic duty"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : historical writing and the limits of Westernization

Modernity in east Asian: Early pioneers, 1860-1920

The development of modernity in American thought, 1890s-1910s

John Dewey's trip to China, Hu Shih, Lu Xun, and Chinese modernity, 1919 to World War II

American and Japanese internationalism and modernity in the 1920s

Modernity in crisis, 1930s-1940s

The postwar transformation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138068209

1138068209

OCLC:

1043966244

Publisher Number:

99977675469