Modernities in Northeast Asia

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-50562-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 324 g

Reihe: Political Theories in East Asian Context

To form a truer portrait of Northeast Asian perspectives on modernity, this book presents a broad range of analyses from philosophical and political-philosophical scholars specializing in the region.

The book considers the encounter between "Western" modernity and "Eastern" tradition not as a simple clash of cultures, but as a generative and hybridizing process of negotiation. It examines the concrete manifestations of modernity in various intellectual and political movements that attempted to radically restructure Northeast Asian societies. And through these situated perspectives, it rethinks and redefines the idea of "modernity" itself, challenging and presenting alternatives to Western-centric thinking on the topic.

This book will be of particular interest to political philosophers, political theorists, comparative philosophers, regional specialists in East Asia, and all scholars grappling with the perplexities of global "modernity."

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kwak, Jun-Hyeok

Cheng, Ken

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: General Overview 1. Introduction: Modernities in Northeast Asia Part 2: Modernity and Tradition 2. Equality and Nationality: the Emergence of Modern Identity Politics 3. China and the Production of its Own Hybridic Modernity Part 3: Embracing and Resisting Modernity 4. The Meanings of the 1919 Moment in China: Sovereignty, Connectivity, and National Awakening 5. Marginalized Science of Modernity: Statistics and Building a Nation-State Without Knowing Oneself 6. Donghak, Confucianism, and the Porous Nature of Modernity in Late Joseon Korea Part 4: Redefining Modernities 7. Modernity Before Its Time: China’s Zhou-Qin Transition (770-221 B.C.E.) as an Early Modernization 8. How Tradition Informs Chinese Modernity: A Progressive Conservative Perspective 9. Multiple Dialogues over Modernity: Considerations on Maruyama Masao’s Political Thought 10. Competing Modernities in Colony and Metropol: The Establishment of the Police System in Meiji Japan

Über Autor(innen)

Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China.

Ken Cheng taught at the School of International Studies at Sun Yat-Sen University (Zhuhai), China, from 2020 to 2023.