Limits of Westernization - American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860 1960

List of contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Historical Writing and the Limits of Westernization; 1: Early East Asian Pioneers of Modernity, 1860-1910;2: The Development of Modernity in American Thought, 1890s-1910s;3: John Dewey’s Trip to China, Hu Shih, Lu Xun, and Chinese Modernity, 1919-1920;4: American and Japanese Internationalism and Modernity in the 1920s;5: Modernity in Crisis, 1930s-1940s;6: The Postwar Transformation; Afterward; Bibliography; Index

About the author

Jon Thares Davidann is Professor of History, Hawai’i Pacific University.

Summary

The goal of this project is to locate the origins and development of modern thought in the United States and East Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Jon Davidann, Jon Thares Davidann
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367898847
• ISBN: 978-0-367-89884-7
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, Philosophy, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Historiography, Asian History, History of the Americas