Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

The Politics of Culture

Around the Work of Naoki Sakai

Edited by Richard Calichman, John Namjun Kim

Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

Naoki Sakai is an important and prominent thinker in Asian and cultural studies and his work continues to make itself felt across a broad range of both national and disciplinary borders. Originally finding a home in the otherwise circumscribed field of Japan Studies, Sakai’s writings have succeeded...

Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge

Taiwanese Business or Chinese Security Asset

A changing pattern of interaction between Taiwanese businesses and Chinese governments

By Chun-Yi Lee

Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

This book investigates how China has used Taiwanese investment and treated Taiwanese investors to pursue political reunification. The book’s main supposition is that both Chinese central and local governments have strategic considerations with respect to Taiwanese businesses. Consequently, through...

Published October 20th 2011 by Routledge

China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period

China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity, 1895-1904

By Urs Matthias Zachmann

Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

The first war between China and Japan in 1894/95 was one of the most fateful events, not only in modern Japanese and Chinese history, but in international history as well. The war and subsequent events catapulted Japan on its trajectory toward temporary hegemony in East Asia, whereas China entered...

Published February 7th 2011 by Routledge

Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy

Edited by Christopher Goto-Jones

Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

In Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy Christopher Goto-Jones contends that existing approaches to the controversial Kyoto School fail to take it seriously as a school of philosophy, instead focussing on historical debates about the alleged complicity of the School’s members with the...

Published December 15th 2010 by Routledge

Ideology and Christianity in Japan

By Kiri Paramore

Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

Ideology and Christianity in Japan shows the major role played by Christian-related discourse in the formation of early-modern and modern Japanese political ideology. The book traces a history development of anti-Christian ideas in Japan from the banning of Christianity by the Tokugawa shogunate...

Published September 30th 2010 by Routledge

Political Philosophy in Japan

Nishida, the Kyoto School and co-prosperity - PbDirect

By Christopher Goto-Jones

Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

Political Philosophy in Japan focuses on the politics of Japan's pre-eminent philosophical school - the Kyoto School - and particularly that of its founder, Nishida Kitarô (1870-1945). Existing literature on Nishida is dismissive of there being serious political content in his work, and of the...

Published July 20th 2010 by Routledge

The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy

Essays in Honour of J.A.A. Stockwin

Edited by David Williams, Rikki Kersten

Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

Leftist thought and activism stands as a defining force in the articulation of political culture and policy in modern Japan. Operating from the periphery of formal political power for the most part, the Japanese Left has had an impact that extends far beyond its limited success at the ballot box....

Published June 15th 2006 by Routledge