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This book examines how Asianism became a key concept in mainstream political discourse between China and Japan and how it was used both domestically and internationally in the contest for political hegemony. It argues that, from the early 1910s to the ear

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EMBRACING ‘ASIA’ IN CHINA AND JAPAN Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912-1933 Torsten Weber

Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series Series Editors Akira Iriye Department of History Harvard University Cambridge MA, USA Rana Mitter Department of History University of Oxford Oxford, UK

This distinguished series seeks to develop scholarship on the transnational connections of societies and peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; provide a forum in which work on transnational history from different periods, subjects, and regions of the world can be brought together in fruitful connection; and explore the theoretical and methodological links between transnational and other related approaches such as comparative history and world history. Editorial board Thomas Bender, University Professor of the Humanities, Professor of History, and Director of the International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University Jane Carruthers, Professor of History, University of South Africa Mariano Plotkin, Professor, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, and member of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research, Argentina Pierre-Yves Saunier, Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France Ian Tyrrell, Professor of History, University of New South Wales More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14675

Torsten Weber

Embracing ‘Asia’ in China and Japan Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912–1933

Torsten Weber DIJ German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo, Japan

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