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Book SynopsisExplores 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.
Trade Review"[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
Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Identity, the National Question, and Revolutionary Change in China and Japan3Ch. 1Marxism, Revolution, and the National Question18Pt. 1The National Question and the Political Theory of Marxism in Asia43Ch. 2The National Question and Problems in the Marxist Theory of the State45Ch. 3The Encounter: Indigenous Perspectives and the Introduction of Marxism84Pt. 2Anarchism, Nationalism, and the Challenge of Bolshevism125Ch. 4Anarchism, Populism, and Early Marxian Socialism127Ch. 5Nationalism and the Path to Bolshevism175Pt. 3History, the State, and Revolutionary Change: Marxist Analyses of the Chinese and Japanese States219Ch. 6State, Nation, and the National Question in the Debate on Japanese Capitalism221Ch. 7National Identity and the State in the Controversy on Chinese Social History273Pt. 4Outcomes: The Reconciliation of Marxism With National Identity326Ch. 8Tenko: Emperor, State, and Marxian National Socialism in Showa Japan327Ch. 9Mao and the Chinese Synthesis of Nationalism, Stateness, and Marxism361Ch. 10Marxism, Nationalism, and Late Industrialization: Conclusions and Epilogue402Notes445Select Bibliography535Index609
