ASIA 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter NA: Eurocentrism
Document Summary
Double binding of japanese colonialism: trajectories of baseball in japan, taiwan, and korea. What makes coloniality/modernity in e asia unique is japan"s emergence as the region"s sole non-western imperial power: familiar duality of west and non-west cannot be applied to the e asian context. Baseball in the context of jap colonialism and postcolonial consciousness: appropriated as a symbol of modernity. Modern sports generated modes of modernization: the displacement of traditional sports, innovations within educational systems, the invention of sports cultures. Symbolizes a specifically american type of modernity and imperial japan plays a crucial role in popularizing it. Double binding: indicates both the possibilities of and limits to the region"s de-colonization and de-imperialization: japanese imperialism and double colonization - Colonial modernity: a speculative frame for investigating the pervasive discursive powers that reference the globalization impulses of international capitalism. Aftermath of wwii and cold war- two americas appeared in e asia: represented desire and positive identification, represented violence and antipathy.
