Explores the emergence of a new, affirmative discourse on Asia in the early twentieth century in the context of shifting power relations between the two countries and the rest of the worldContributes to the transnational history of geopolitical thought in East Asia, transcending national borders and moving beyond national historiographies
Analyses and compares different affirmations of Asianism, as well as criticisms and rejections of the concept, to offer a more complex understanding of Asianism than previous studies have been able to provide

Autorentext

Torsten Weber is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Humanities Section at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo, Japan.

Inhalt
1 Introduction.- 2 Studying Asianism: The Impact and Legacy of Takeuchi Yoshimi.- 3 Asia becomes an 'ism': Early Chinese and Japanese Asianism.- 4 Asianism during World War One: Macro-Nationalism or Micro-Worldism?.- 5 The Radicalization of 'Asia' in the post-Versailles Period.- 6 The Regionalization of 'Asia': Asianism from Below and its Failure.- 7 Asianism from Above: The Realisation of 'Asia' in Manchuria.- 8 Conclusion.