The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan by Germaine A Hoston

The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan by Germaine A Hoston

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Explores how radical Chinese and Japanese thinkers committed to social change in the first decades of the twentieth century addressed issues concerning national identity, social revolution, and the role of the national state in achieving socio-economic development.

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The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan by Germaine A Hoston

Explores how radical Chinese and Japanese thinkers committed to social change in the first decades of the twentieth century addressed issues concerning national identity, social revolution, and the role of the national state in achieving socio-economic development.
"[Hoston] analyzes the reception of Marxism as it spread to east Asia, focusing on the persistent tension between the socialist internationalism that underpinned it and enduring nationalism in China and Japan.. [She] enhances our understanding of the Japanese left on the eve of the Second World War."--History
Germaine A. Hoston is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan (Princeton).
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ISBN 13 9780691023342
ISBN 10 0691023344
Title The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan
Author Germaine A Hoston
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Princeton University Press
Year published 1994-09-11
Number of pages 640
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