Germaine A. Hoston, Germaine A. Hoston

The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780691225418
• Artikelnr.: 60552185

Autorenporträt

Germaine A. Hoston is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan (Princeton).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
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 Perspectives 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
445
Select Bibliography
535
Index
609

Rezensionen

[Hoston] analyzes the reception of Marxism as it spread to east Asia, focusing on the persistent tension between the socialist internationalism that underpinned it and enduring nationalism in China and Japan . . . [She] enhances our understanding of the Japanese left on the eve of the Second World War.