- List of Figures*
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Asianism
- Writing on Japanese Asianism
- Writing on Chinese Asianism
- China, Japan, and East Asia
- Chapter Breakdown
- 1. Lips and Teeth: Uniting with Japan: Enthusiasm and Disdain
- The Reformers’ Strategic Turn toward Japan
- The Rise of Asianist Institutions in China
- The Translation of Pro-Japanese News
- Chinese Voices at the Chinese Progress Promote Alliance with Japan
- Translating Race, Nation, and Asianism
- The Complications of Translating Tarui Asianism
- Conclusion
- 2. Jaw and Jowls: Confucian Asianism in Japan’s Chinatowns
- The Reformers and the Tōa Dōbunkai
- The Establishment of the Datong Schools
- Sino-Japanese Elite Cooperation and the Datong School
- Yamamoto Ken
- Xu Qin: The Primary Educator at the Datong School
- The Datong School and Layers of Identity
- Conclusion
- 3. Same Script, Same Race
- Late Nineteenth-Century Chinese Writings on Race
- Race and Race War
- Yellow Peril
- Subverting the Yellow Peril and Taking Pride in Race
- Tongzhong and Yizhong
- Anti-Manchu Nationalism and Race
- Liu Shipei
- Chen Tianhua, the Beginning of the People’s News, and the End of the “Golden Decade”
- The Revolutionaries Are Introduced to India
- The Asiatic Humanitarian Brotherhood
- Conclusion
- 4. Asia for the Asians: Eastern Civilization and the Great War
- The Eastern Miscellany under Du Yaquan
- Translators at the Eastern Miscellany
- The Great War in the Eastern Miscellany
- Du Yaquan and Civilization
- Establishing Dichotomies, Defining China and the East
- Conflict: Race War or Clash of Civilizations
- Synthesis of East and West
- Civilizational Leadership and Pan-Americanism
- Kodera’s Greater Asianism: Eastern Civilization under Japan
- Conclusion
- 5. Toward Datong: Li Dazhao and Cosmopolitan Regionalization
- New Asianism and New New Asianism
- Asian Leadership and the Imbrication of Nationalism and Asianism
- Trotskyist Internationalism
- Cosmopolitan Criticism of Li’s Asianism
- New Asianism Clarified
- Conclusion
- 6. The Kingly Way: Sun Yat-sen’s Reconceptualization of Asia
- Returning to Sun Yat-sen’s Asianism in Historiography
- Sun Yat-sen’s Early Asianist Inclinations
- Sun’s Asianist Speeches: Strategic Alliance under Japanese Leadership
- The Guomindang’s Push for Asian Cooperation in 1913
- Contradictions and Continuities: Sun Yat-sen, 1913–1918
- 1924: Is Japan Still Asian?
- The Mixed Reception Outside of Japan and Issues of Nationalism
- Conclusion
- 7. The Weak and Small Nations: Organizing Asian Unity in Shanghai and Beijing
- The Failure of the League of Nations
- Beijing and Shanghai Intellectuals after the May Thirtieth Movement of 1925
- Beijing’s Asian Nations’ Alliance
- Shanghai’s Asiatic Society
- The Asian Nations Conferences
- Asia’s Response to the League of Nations: The League of Asian Nations
- The Media Backlash and the Turn to Ruoxiao Nations
- Conclusion
- 8. The International of Nations: The Guomindang as Asia’s Leader
- The Limits of China and New Asia
- Ruoxiao Nations: Reunderstanding the Colonial Situation
- Chinese Paternalism and the Asian Elder Brother
- On the International of Nations
- The Guomindang Leading the Ruoxiao Nations
- Cultural Superiority
- Differentiating Chinese Asianism from Japanese Monroism
- Conclusion
- 9. Mutual Glory: Wartime Propaganda and Peace with Japan
- Historians Climb a Mountain of Sources
- Legitimacy and Collaboration: Establishing the Reorganized Government
- The Wang Regime’s Use of Asianism and the Kingly Way
- The New Citizens’ Movement and the East Asian League
- The Propaganda Bureau and Its Publications
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- China and Japan
- China as the Center of Neoliberal Asia
- The Imbrication of Nationalism with Asianism: Wealth and Power
- Bibliography
- Index
- * List of Figures
- 2.1. Datong school assembly, 1908
- 2.2. The Datong School in 1915
- 2.3. Xu Qin photographed with Liang Qichao
- 2.4. Message of Asian unity on a scroll hung beside the image of Confucius in 1898
- 3.1. “Die Gelbe Gefahr” (The Yellow Peril), 1895
- 3.2. Zou Rong’s categorization of the yellow race
- 8.1. Xie Bin’s map of ceded territory
- 8.2. Asia’s air force
- 9.1. “The vow of Asianism: live together and die together”
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