Read more
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."
List of contents
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: China's 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 Masao's Political Thought 10. Competing Modernities in Colony and Metropol: The Establishment of the Police System in Meiji Japan
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
