State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan
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Activism
Anarchism
Anti-imperialism
Asiatic mode of production
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Backwardness
Bolsheviks
Bourgeoisie
Capitalism
Capitalist state
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China
Class conflict
Communism
Communist International
Communist Party of China
Communist society
Confucianism
Counter-revolutionary
Despotism
Dictatorship
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Feudalism
For Marx
Hegemony
Historical materialism
Ideology
Imperialism
Industrialisation
Intellectual
Japanese Communist Party
Kokutai
Kuomintang
Left-wing politics
Leninism
Leon Trotsky
Li Dazhao
Mao Zedong
Maoism
Marx's theory of the state
Marxian economics
Marxism
Marxism-Leninism
Marxist philosophy
May Fourth Movement
Meiji period
Meiji Restoration
Mode of production
Nation state
Nationalism
Nationality
Political party
Political philosophy
Political science
Politics
Proletarian revolution
Revolutionary movement
Revolutionary socialism
Russian Revolution
Social democracy
Social revolution
Socialism with Chinese characteristics
Sovereignty
Soviet Union
Stalinism
State capitalism
State socialism
Statism
The Communist Manifesto
Trotskyism
Vanguardism
World revolution
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691023342
- Weight: 907g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 11 Sep 1994
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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).
