GASA01H3 Lecture 7: Worksheet 7
2 Mar 2018
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Overview of pan-asianism: pan-asianism: ideology that promoted a spiritual and cultural kinship, friendship, and connection of all asian people, pan-asianists were anti-colonial thinkers who opposed the british/western empire and its violence, connected to rise of japan. Japanese began to colonize other countries: war broke out between china and japan, and japan got the colony. Compare and contrast japan"s encounter with western power with what you: china meeting the west was a cultural problem vs japan which had the learned about china last week motive of taking over the west. Two meanings of pan asianism: asian unity: 1931, pan-asianism was an ideological justification for japanese imperial expansion in asia: asian empire under japan. First developed in japan then became popular in china and india: 2 meanings of pan-asianism at one level are a contradiction, can suggest a friendship or justification for japanese political control. Westernization but at the same time, a search for an authentic cultural symbol for nationalism.
