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equality, competition, and honour in East Asian nationalism
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Contributors to this book argue that everyday struggles for dignity and equality in the states of East Asia provide much of the impetus driving East Asian nationalism. They examine China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, which occupy one of the most volatile regions in the world today.
1. Introduction : the dignity of nations / John Fitzgerald -- 2. Equality, hierarchy and identity in modern Japan : reflections on the nationalist ethics of Fukuzawa Yukichi / Naoki Sakai -- 3. Indignity for the emperor, equality for the people : Taisho democracy and the transition from nationalism to ultra nationalism / Masachi Ohsawa -- 4. Turning slaves into citizens : discourses of Guomin and the construction of Chinese national identity in the late Qing period / Sung-chiao Shen and Sechin Y.S. Chien -- 5. Dignity of the nation, gender equality, or charity for all? : options for the first modern Chinese women doctors / Angela Ki Che Leung -- 6. Nationalism, democracy and dignity in twentieth-century China / John Fitzgerald -- 7. Between Heimat and nation : Japanese colonial education and the origins of "Taiwanese consciousness" / Wan-yao Chou -- 8. Is Taiwan a nation? : on the current debate over Taiwanese national identity and national recognition / Yi-huah Jiang -- 9. In God's image : the Christian, the individual, and the nation in colonial Korea / Kenneth M. Wells -- 10. Economic nationalism and income distribution in late industrializing countries / Alice H. Amsden and Takashi Hikino.
edited by Sechin Y.S. Chien and John Fitzgerald.
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-244) and index.