Okakura Tenshin and Pan-Asianism shadows of the past

Summary: "Okakura Tenshin (1862-1913) is a significant figure in Japan's modern intellectual history. His writings in both Japanese and English became part of a growing discourse that positioned Japan as the guardian and protector of Asia against the depredations, cultural as much as economic and political, of the West. At the outbreak of the Pacific War, the first line ('Asia is One') of his 1903 book, The Ideals of the East, was celebrated posthumously by the Japanese military as the most powerful expression of Japan's goal of political ascendancy in Asia."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9004213236 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9789004213234 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1905246617
ISBN: 9781905246618
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 176 p.) : ill.
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electronic resource
Publisher: Folkestone : Global Oriental, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Okakura Tenshin and the ideal of Pan-Asianism / Matsumoto Kenichi -- Japanese cultural identity and nineteenth-century Asian nationalism: Okakura Tenshin and Swami Vivekananda / Wakakuwa Midori -- Okakura Tenshin: writing a good history upon a modern plan / Brij Tankha -- A transnational history of Japanese nationalism: Pan-Asianism and Islam 1900-45 / Selcuk Esenbel -- Asianism, nationalism and culturalism in early twentieth-century China / Madhavi Thampi -- Landscapes of Nandalal Bose (1882-1966): Japanism, nationalism and populism in modern India / Aida Yuen Wong -- Voluntary blindness / Yomota Inuhiko -- Representing women: problematizing an Asian identity / Ravni Thakur -- National bias in identity construction: examples of academic groupings in East Asia / Margaret Sleeboom -- Asia is one: visions of Asian community in twenty-first century Japan / Tessa Morris-Susuki.
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