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Informationen zum Autor Sven Saaler is professor of modern Japanese history at Sophia University, Tokyo. Christopher W. A. Szpilman is professor of modern Japanese history at Teikyo University, Tokyo. Klappentext Pan-Asianism has been an ideal of Asian solidarity, regional cooperation, and regional integration but also served to justify expansionism and aggression. As such, it has been a decisive factor in the history of Asia and the Pacific region. This groundbreaking collection brings seminal documents on Pan-Asianism to the Western reader for the first time. It includes some fifty primary sources from 1850 to 1920. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Emergence of Pan-Asianism as an Ideal of Asian Identity and Solidarity, 1850-2008 Sven Saaler and Christopher W. A. Szpilman Part I: The Dawn of Pan-Asianism, 1850-1900 Chapter 1: The Concept of "Asia" before Pan-Asianism Matsuda Koichiro Chapter 2: The Foundation Manifesto of the Koakai (Raising Asia Society) and the Ajia Kyokai (Asia Association), 1880-1883 Urs Matthias Zachmann Chapter 3: The Genyosha (1881) and Premodern Roots of Japanese Expansionism Joël Joos Chapter 4: Koa-Raising Asia: Arao Sei and Inoue Masaji Michael A. Schneider Chapter 5: Tarui Tokichi's Arguments on Behalf of the Union of the Great East, 1893 Kyu Hyun Kim Chapter 6: Konoe Atsumaro and the Idea of an Alliance of the Yellow Race, 1898 Urs Matthias Zachmann Chapter 7: Okakura Tenshin: "Asia Is One," 1903 Brij Tankha Chapter 8: Okakura Tenshin and Pan-Asianism, 1903-1906 Jing He Part II: The Era of Imperialism and Pan-Asianism in Japan, 1900-1914 Chapter 9: The Foundation Manifesto of the Toa Dob
