Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912-1933

This book examines how Asianism became a key concept in mainstream political discourse between China and Japan and how it was used both domestically and internationally in the contest for political hegemony. It argues that, from the early 1910s to the early 1930s, this contest changed Chinese and Japanese perceptions of ‘Asia’, from a concept that was foreign—referential, foreign—imposed, peripheral, and mostly negative and denied (in Japan) or largely ignored (in China) to one that was sel...