Studying the Enemy: Japan Hands in Republican China and Their Quest for National Identity, 1925-1945

by Reinhold,Christiane

• ISBN13: 9780415931823
• ISBN10: 0415931827
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Unlike the majority of contemporary scholarly works that examine Sino-Japanese relations between 1925 and 1945, this study de-emphasizes the story of conflict and war in favor of one that revolves around the way in which the Chinese intellectually encountered the "enemy", the Japanese.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Preface	xiii
Note on Transliteration and Conventions	xv
Introduction	xvii
A History of the Japan Discourse in China from its Beginnings to 1928	3	(38)
The Early Sino-Japanese Relationship and the Chinese Literary Output
Chinese Literati of the Late Nineteenth Century Discuss Early Meiji Japan
Changing Narrative Strategies in Late Nineteenth-Century
Writings on Japan
The Japan View of Late Nineteenth-Century Literati
Learning from Japan, not about Japan (1898-1928)
Conclusion
The Study of Japan in Republican China: An Overview	41	(56)
Part One: The Biographical Backgrounds of the Japan Hands and the Genealogy of their Japan Views
The Wenren: Jiang Baili, Zhou Zuoren, Wang Pengsheng
GMD Officials and Supporters: Dai Jitao, Chen Dezheng, Yao Baoyou
Cadres and Supporters of the CCP: Li Fanfu, Wang Jiyuan, Xie Jinqing, Xie Nanguang
Part Two: Contextualizing the Japan Discourse
The Genesis of the Japan Studies
Sources of Authority and Legitimacy
The Guomindang and the Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Print Media
The Pioneering Role Played by the Works of the Chinese
Japan Hands
The Dissemination of Japan-related Knowledge through Journals
Knowledge Disseminated by Chinese History Textbooks
Conclusion
Explaining Japan--and China?--Through Japanese History	97	(54)
Why Study Japanese History: the Problem of Utility and the Historian's Loyalty to his Nation
Applying Western Ideas to the Writing of Japanese History
The Evolutionary Concept of History and the
Five-Stage Marxist Periodization Scheme as Applied to Japanese History
The Slave-holding Stage
Feudal Japan
The Bourgeois-Capitalist Stage
Historical Evolution Stalled: The Meiji Restoration as an Incomplete Revolution
Modern Historiography versus National Essence
Conclusion
Mirroring the ``Other'': The Study of National Character and Culture of the Japanese	151	(36)
Plumbing the Japanese Psyche
Prometheus Bound: The Debate Surrounding Japanese
Cultural Autonomy
The Chinese Self-Image vis-a-vis the Japanese
Conclusion
Deconstructing Japanism to Construct a Chinese Identity	187	(40)
The Emergence of Japanism in 1930s Japan
The Components of Japanism
The Birth Place of Japanism: the Japanese shinkoku
Japanese Creation Mythology and the Concept of shinkoku
The Contribution of National Learning to Japanism
The Chrysalis: Imperial Centrism in Meiji Japan
Japanism and Radical Japanese Nationalism in the 1920s
Trite and True: the ``Land of the Gods'' is just another Dictatorship
Domestic Reform: the One-Party System, Anti-Capitalism, and Agrarianism
Shinkoku and the Principles of Foreign Policy in 1930s Japan
Conclusion
Conclusion	227	(4)
Glossary	231	(26)
Bibliography	257	(20)
Index	277