The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan

Germaine A. Hoston

Published by Princeton University Press 1995

The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan

Germaine A. Hoston

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691225418

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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.

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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).

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"[Hoston] analyzes the reception of Marxism as it spread to east Asia, focusing on the persistent tension between the socialist internationalism that underpinned it and enduring nationalism in China and Japan . . . [She] enhances our understanding of the Japanese left on the eve of the Second World War."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Identity, the National Question, and Revolutionary Change in China and Japan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER ONE Marxism, Revolution, and the National Question Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
PART ONE The National Question and the Political Theory of Marxism in Asia
CHAPTER TWO The National Question and Problems in the Marxist Theory of the State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
CHAPTER THREE The Encounter: Indigenous Perspectives and the Introduction of Marxism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
PART TWO: ANARCHISM, NATIONALISM, AND THE CHALLENGE OF BOLSHEVISM
CHAPTER FOUR Anarchism, Populism, and Early Marxian Socialism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
CHAPTER FIVE Nationalism and the Path to Bolshevism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
PART THREE: HISTORY, THE STATE, AND REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE: MARXIST ANALYSES OF THE CHINESE AND JAPANESE STATES
CHAPTER SIX State, Nation, and the National Question in the Debate on Japanese Capitalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
CHAPTER SEVEN National Identity and the State in the Controversy on Chinese Social History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
PART FOUR: OUTCOMES: THE RECONCILIATION OF MARXISM WITH NATIONAL IDENTITY
CHAPTER EIGHT Tenko: Emperor, State, and Marxian National Socialism in Showa Japan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
CHAPTER NINE Mao and the Chinese Synthesis of Nationalism, Stateness, and Marxism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
CHAPTER TEN Marxism, Nationalism, and Late Industrialization: Conclusions and Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	402
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	535
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	609