The politics of time in China and Japan back to the future / Viren Murthy.
| Author/creator | Murthy, Viren |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge approaches to history ; 48 |
| Contents | Introduction: Back to the future-rethinking politics and time -- The politics of the past in China and Japan -- Japanese critiques of linear time in global context -- Umemoto Katsumi, subjective nothingness, and the critique of civil society -- Tianxia and postwar Japanese sinologists' vision of the Chinese revolution : the cases of Nishi Junz¿ and Mizoguchi Y¿±z¿ -- Toward a new world order : reading Tianxia with Hegel and Marx -- Coda: Futures of Chinese politics of the past. |
| Abstract | "Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume shows how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals mobilized the past to create a better future. It is especially significant today given a world where, amidst tensions within Asia and the rise of China, East Asian intellectuals and governments constantly find new political meanings in their traditions. The essays illuminate how throughout Chinese and Japanese history, thinkers constantly weaved together nationalism, internationalism and a politics of time. This volume explores a broad range of subjects such as premodern and early modern attempts to conjure a politics of Confucianism, twentieth century Japanese Marxist interpretations of Buddhism and Japanese and Chinese endeavors to imagine a new world order. In sum, this book shows us why understanding East Asian pasts are essential to making sense of ideological trends in contemporary China and Japan. For example, without understanding Confucianism and how modern intellectuals in China grappled with this body of thought, we would be unable to make sense of the Chinese government's current promotion of the Chinese classics. This book will interest students and scholars of political science, history and Asian Studies, sociology and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Murthy, Viren. Politics of time in China and Japan Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 9780367675448 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022000036 |
| ISBN | 9781000608526 (epub) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781003131748 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 9781000608519 (adobe pdf) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |