Pan-Asianism

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.

Introduction: The Emergence of Pan-Asianism as an Ideal of Asian Identity and Solidarity, 1850-2008Sven Saaler and Christopher W. A. SzpilmanPart I: The Dawn of Pan-Asianism, 1850-1900Chapter 1: The Concept of "Asia" before Pan-AsianismMatsuda KoichiroChapter 2: The Foundation Manifesto of the Koakai (Raising Asia Society) and the Ajia Kyokai (Asia Association), 1880-1883Urs Matthias ZachmannChapter 3: The Genyosha (1881) and Premodern Roots of Japanese ExpansionismJoël JoosChapter 4: Koa-Raising Asia: Arao Sei and Inoue MasajiMichael A. SchneiderChapter 5: Tarui Tokichi's Arguments on Behalf of the Union of the Great East, 1893Kyu Hyun KimChapter 6: Konoe Atsumaro and the Idea of an Alliance of the Yellow Race, 1898Urs Matthias ZachmannChapter 7: Okakura Tenshin: "Asia Is One," 1903Brij TankhaChapter 8: Okakura Tenshin and Pan-Asianism, 1903-1906Jing HePart II: The Era of Imperialism and Pan-Asianism in Japan, 1900-1914Chapter 9: The Foundation Manifesto of the Toa Dobunkai (East Asian Common Culture Society), 1898Urs Matthias ZachmannChapter 10: The Kokuryukai, 1901-1920Sven SaalerChapter 11: Miyazaki Toten's Pan-Asianism, 1915-1919Christopher W. A. SzpilmanChapter 12: Pan-Asianism, the "Yellow Peril," and Suematsu Kencho, 1905Sven SaalerChapter 13: Hatano Uho: Asia in Danger, 1912Renée WorringerChapter 14: Nagai Ryutaro: "The White Peril," 1913Peter DuusPart III: Asian Responses to Imperialism and Japanese Pan-Asianism, 1900-1922Chapter 15: So Chaep'il: Editorials from Tongnip Sinmun (The Independent), 1898-1899Kim BongjinChapter 16: Zhang Taiyan and the Asiatic Humanitarian Brotherhood, 1907Yuan P. CaiChapter 17: Aurobindo Ghose: "The Logic of Asia," 1908-1909Brij TankhaChapter 18: Sin Ch'ae-ho: "A Critique of Easternism," 1909Kim BongjinChapter 19: Abdürresid Ibrahim: "The World of Islam and the Spread of Islam in Japan," 1910Selçuk EsenbelChapter 20: An Chung-gun: "A Discourse on Peace in East Asia," 1910Eun-jeung LeeChapter 21: Benoy Kumar Sarkar: The Asia of the Folk, 1916Brij TankhaChapter 22: Li Dazhao: "Greater Asianism and New Asianism," 1919Marc Andre MattenChapter 23: Kurban Ali and the Tatar Community in Japan, 1922Selçuk EsenbelChapter 24: Rash Behari Bose: The Indian Independence Movement and JapanEri HottaPart IV: The Breakdown of the Imperialist Order: World War I and Pan-Asianism, 1914-1920Chapter 25: Germany, Sun Yat-sen and Pan-Asianism, 1917-1923Sven SaalerChapter 26: Pan-Asianism during and after World War I: Kodera Kenkichi (1916)Sawayanagi Masataro (1919), and Sugita Teiichi (1920)Sven SaalerChapter 27: Kita Ikki: "An Unofficial History of the Chinese Revolution," 1915, and "The Outline of a Plan for the Reconstruction of Japan," 1919Christopher W. A. SzpilmanChapter 28: Tokutomi Soho and the "Asiatic Monroe Doctrine," 1917Alistair SwaleChapter 29: Paul Richard: To Japan, 1917, and The Dawn over Asia, 1920Christopher W. A. SzpilmanChapter 30: Kita Reikichi: "Misunderstood Asianism" and "The Great Mission of Our Country," 1917Christopher W. A. SzpilmanChapter 31: Taraknath Das: Pan-Asian Solidarity as a "Realist" Grand Strategy, 1917-1918Cemil AydinChapter 32: Konoe Fumimaro: "A Call to Reject the Anglo-American Centered Peace," 1918Eri HottaBibliography