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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoston, Germaine A., 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism--China.

Communism.

Communism--Japan.

Communism--Asia.

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

Japan.

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

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (646 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : 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:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION Identity, the National Question, and Revolutionary Change in China and Japan

CHAPTER ONE Marxism, Revolution, and the National Question

PART ONE The National Question and the Political Theory of Marxism in Asia

CHAPTER TWO The National Question and Problems in the Marxist Theory of the State

CHAPTER THREE The Encounter: Indigenous Perspectives and the Introduction of Marxism

PART TWO: ANARCHISM, NATIONALISM, AND THE CHALLENGE OF BOLSHEVISM

CHAPTER FOUR Anarchism, Populism, and Early Marxian Socialism

CHAPTER FIVE Nationalism and the Path to Bolshevism

PART THREE: HISTORY, THE STATE, AND REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE: MARXIST ANALYSES OF THE CHINESE AND JAPANESE STATES

CHAPTER SIX State, Nation, and the National Question in the Debate on Japanese Capitalism

CHAPTER SEVEN National Identity and the State in the Controversy on Chinese Social History

PART FOUR: OUTCOMES: THE RECONCILIATION OF MARXISM WITH NATIONAL IDENTITY

CHAPTER EIGHT Tenko: Emperor, State, and Marxian National Socialism in Showa Japan

CHAPTER NINE Mao and the Chinese Synthesis of Nationalism, Stateness, and Marxism

CHAPTER TEN Marxism, Nationalism, and Late Industrialization: Conclusions and Epilogue

NOTES

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INDEX

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [535]-608) and index.

ISBN:

9780691078731

0691078734

9780691225418

0691225419

OCLC:

1273307372