Studying the enemy : Japan hands in Republican China and their quest for national identity /
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New York :
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2001
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| Series: | East Asia (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments xi
- Preface xiii
- Note on Transliteration and Conventions xv
- Introduction xvii
- CHAPTER ONE
- A HISTORY OF THE JAPAN DISCOURSE IN CHINA FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO 1928 3
- The Early Sino-Japanese Relationship and the Chinese Literary Output
- Chinese Literati of the Late Nineteenth Century Discuss
- Early Meiji Japan
- Changing Narrative Strategies in Late Nineteenth-Century
- Writings on Japan
- The Japan View of Late Nineteenth-Century Literati
- Learning from Japan, not about Japan (1898-1928)
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER Two
- THE STUDY OF JAPAN IN REPUBLICAN CHINA: AN OVERVIEW 41
- Part One: The Biographical Backgrounds of the Japan Hands and the Genealogy of their Japan Views
- The Wenren: Jiang Baili, Zhou Zuoren, Wang Pengsheng GMD Officials and Supporters: Dai Jitao, Chen Dezheng, Yao Baoyou Cadres and Supporters of the CCP: Li Fanfu, Wang Jiyuan, Xie Jinqing, Xie Nanguang
- Part Two: Contextualizing the Japan Discourse
- The Genesis of the Japan Studies
- Sources of Authority and Legitimacy
- The Guomindang and the Chinese Communist Party
- The Chinese Print Media
- The Pioneering Role Played by the Works of the Chinese Japan Hands
- The Dissemination of Japan-related Knowledge through Journals
- Knowledge Disseminated by Chinese History Textbooks Conclusion
- CHAPTER THREE
- EXPLAINING JAPAN-AND CHINA?-THROUGH JAPANESE HISTORY 97
- Why Study Japanese History: the Problem of Utility and the Historian's Loyalty to his Nation Applying
- Western Ideas to the Writing of Japanese History The Evolutionary Concept of History and the
- Five-Stage Marxist Periodization Scheme as Applied to Japanese History The Slave-holding Stage
- Feudal Japan
- The Bourgeois-Capitalist Stage
- Historical Evolution Stalled: The Meiji Restoration as an Incomplete Revolution
- Modern Historiography versus National Essence
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER FOUR
- MIRRORING THE "OTHER": THE STUDY OF NATIONAL CHARACTER AND CULTURE OF THE JAPANESE 151
- Plumbing the Japanese Psyche
- Prometheus Bound: The Debate Surrounding Japanese Cultural Autonomy
- The Chinese Self-image vis-a-vis the Japanese
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER FIVE
- DECONSTRUCTING JAPANISM TO CONSTRUCT A CHINESE IDENTITY 187
- The Emergence of Japanism in 1930s Japan
- The Components of Japanism
- The Birth Place of Japanism: the Japanese shinkoku
- Japanese Creation Mythology and the Concept of shinkoku
- The Contribution of National Learning to Japanism
- The Chrysalis: Imperial Centrism in Meiji Japan
- Japanism and Radical Japanese Nationalism in the 1920s
- Trite and True: the "Land of the Gods" is just another Dictatorship
- Domestic Reform: the One-Party System, Anti-Capitalism, and Agrarianism
- Shinkoku and the Principles of Foreign Policy in 1930s Japan
- Conclusion
- CONCLUSION 227
- GLOSSARY 231
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 257
- Index 277