The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan , by Germaine A. Hoston

This very dense book represents a significant effort to come to terms with the “national question” in radical discourse—the meaning of the nation in relation to, or in opposition to, the state—through the prism of the adoption of Marxist ideas in China and Japan in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This is a critical problem inasmuch as issues of state-building in China and of state hegemony in Japan have dominated the recent histories of those two countries

China · Epistemology · Hegemony · Marxist philosophy · Meaning (existential) · National identity · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prism · Sociology · State (computer science) · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy