To form a truer portrait of Northeast Asian perspectives on modernity, this book presents a broad range of analyses from philosophical and political-philosophical scholars specializing in the region.
To form a truer portrait of Northeast Asian perspectives on modernity, this book presents a broad range of analyses from philosophical and political-philosophical scholars specializing in the region.
The book considers the encounter between "Western" modernity and "Eastern" tradition not as a simple clash of cultures, but as a generative and hybridizing process of negotiation. It examines the concrete manifestations of modernity in various intellectual and political movements that attempted to radically restructure Northeast Asian societies. And through these situated perspectives, it rethinks and redefines the idea of "modernity" itself, challenging and presenting alternatives to Western-centric thinking on the topic.
This book will be of particular interest to political philosophers, political theorists, comparative philosophers, regional specialists in East Asia, and all scholars grappling with the perplexities of global "modernity."
Part 1: General Overview
1. Introduction: Modernities in Northeast Asia
Part 2: Modernity and Tradition
2. Equality and Nationality: the Emergence of
Modern Identity Politics
3. China and the Production of its Own Hybridic
Modernity Part 3: Embracing and Resisting Modernity
4. The Meanings of the
1919 Moment in China: Sovereignty, Connectivity, and National Awakening
5.
Marginalized Science of Modernity: Statistics and Building a Nation-State
Without Knowing Oneself
6. Donghak, Confucianism, and the Porous Nature of
Modernity in Late Joseon Korea Part 4: Redefining Modernities
7. Modernity
Before Its Time: Chinas Zhou-Qin Transition (770-221 B.C.E.) as an Early
Modernization
8. How Tradition Informs Chinese Modernity: A Progressive
Conservative Perspective
9. Multiple Dialogues over Modernity: Considerations
on Maruyama Masaos Political Thought
10. Competing Modernities in Colony and
Metropol: The Establishment of the Police System in Meiji Japan
Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China.
Ken Cheng taught at the School of International Studies at Sun Yat-Sen University (Zhuhai), China, from 2020 to 2023.
