Studying the Enemy: Japan Hands in Republican China and Their Quest for National Identity, 1925-1945

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ISBN: 9780415931823 | 0415931827
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/12/2001

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Unlike the majority of contemporary scholarly works that examine Sino-Japanese relations between 1925 and 1945, this study de-emphasizes the story of conflict and war in favor of one that revolves around the way in which the Chinese intellectually encountered the "enemy", the Japanese.

Acknowledgments

Preface

xiii

Note on Transliteration and Conventions

Introduction

xvii

A History of the Japan Discourse in China from its Beginnings to 1928

(38)

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

The Study of Japan in Republican China: An Overview

(56)

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

Explaining Japan--and China?--Through Japanese History

(54)

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

Mirroring the ``Other'': The Study of National Character and Culture of the Japanese

151

(36)

Plumbing the Japanese Psyche

Prometheus Bound: The Debate Surrounding Japanese

Cultural Autonomy

The Chinese Self-Image vis-a-vis the Japanese

Conclusion

Deconstructing Japanism to Construct a Chinese Identity

187

(40)

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

227

(4)

Glossary

231

(26)

Bibliography

257

(20)

Index

277

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Studying the Enemy: Japan Hands in Republican China and Their Quest for National Identity, 1925-1945

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