Part 1: General Overview
1. Introduction: Modernities in Northeast Asia
Jun-Hyeok Kwak and Ken Cheng
Part 2: Modernity and Tradition
2. Equality and Nationality: The Emergence of Modern Identity Politics
Naoki Sakai
3. China and the Production of Its Own Hybridic Modernity
Roger T. Ames
Part 3: Embracing and Resisting Modernity
4. The Meanings of the 1919 Moment in China: Sovereignty, Connectivity, and National Awakening
Tze-ki Hon
5. Marginalized Science of Modernity: Statistics and Building a Nation-State without Knowing Oneself
Koichiro Matsuda
6. Eastern Learning (Donghak) and Hybrid Modernity in Late Joseon Korea
Yutang Jin
Part 4: Redefining Modernities
7. Modernity Before Its Time: China’s Zhou-Qin Transition as an Early Modernization
Tongdong Bai
8. How Tradition Informs Chinese Modernity: A Progressive Conservative Perspective
Daniel Bell and Pei Wang
9. Multiple Dialogues over Modernity: Considerations on Maruyama Masao’s Political Thought
Takashi Kibe
10. Competing Modernities in Colony and Metropol: The Establishment of the Police System in Meiji Japan
Naoyuki Umemori
Biography
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.
