1st Edition
The Politics of Time in China and Japan Back to the Future
By Viren Murthy
Copyright 2022
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume shows how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals mobilized the past to create a better future. It is especially significant today given a world where, amidst tensions within Asia and the rise of China, East Asian intellectuals and governments constantly find new political meanings in their traditions. The essays... Read more
Introduction: Back to the Future—Rethinking Politics and Time
1. The Politics of the Past in China and Japan
2. Japanese Critiques of Linear Time in Global Context
3. Umemoto Katsumi, Subjective Nothingness, and the Critique of Civil Society
4. Tianxia and Postwar Japanese Sinologists’ Vision of the Chinese Revolution: The Cases of Nishi Junzō and Mizoguchi Yūzō
5. Toward a New World Order: Reading Tianxia with Hegel and Marx
Coda: Futures of Chinese Politics of the Past
Biography
Viren Murthy teaches transnational Asian History and researches Chinese and Japanese intellectual history in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
