The Articulation of National Identity in Early Twentieth-century East Asia
The Intertwining of Discourses of Modernity and Civilisation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12349253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Atsuko Ichijo (0000-0001-6258-7204, Kingston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 342-355 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1035-7823 • E-ISSN: 1467-8403 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10357823.2018.1443430 |
| OpenAlex | W2763805990 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
This article examines the ways in which national identity was articulated by intellectuals in Japan, China and Taiwan in the first half of the twentieth century as a first step to reviewing the standard western-centric and diffusionist account of nationalism. Conventional accounts of nationalism regard nationalism as intrinsically European, rooted in developments such as the Enlightenment and the Westphalian system of states, and consider non-western cases as examples of diffusion from the “centre” to the “periphery”. Even though the discourse of the nation and national identity produced by East Asian intellectuals in the early twentieth century was shaped by social and political theories developed in the West, their frequent use of civilisational referents suggests that they were subjectively engaged with a project of self-definition that drew on their own sources, which undermines diffusionist assumptions. The article briefly examines the discourse of national identity articulated by the Kyoto School of philosophy, Sun Yat-sen and Tsai Pei-huo as the first step in exploring the possibility of multiple origins of nationalism
Aesthetics · Articulation (sociology · China · Civilization · East Asia · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Identity (music · Modernity · National identity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
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Nationalism and Multiple Modernities
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Philosophers of Nothingness
Nations and Nationalism
Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History
The Nation and Its Fragments
Theories of Nationalism (2nd Edition)
Nationalism in Asia and Africa
Nationalism in Asia and Africa
Imagined communities
The Nation-State and Violence
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |