By Robert Hoppens, Christopher Gerteis
ISBN-10: 1472575466
ISBN-13: 9781472575463
The Nineteen Seventies have been a interval of dramatic switch in family among Japan and the People's Republic of China (PRC). the 2 international locations validated diplomatic relatives for the 1st time, cast shut financial ties and reached political agreements that also advisor and constrain kin this day. This ebook can provide a heritage of this foundational interval in Sino-Japanese family. It provides an updated diplomatic historical past of the connection but in addition is going past this to argue that Japan's kin with China has to be understood within the context of a bigger “China challenge” that used to be inseparable from a household contest to outline jap nationwide identification.
The China challenge in Postwar Japan demanding situations a few universal assertions or assumptions in regards to the position of jap nationwide id in postwar Sino-Japanese kinfolk, exhibiting how the background of eastern relatives with China within the Nineteen Seventies is formed by way of the energy of jap nationwide id, no longer its weakness.
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In addition, the Chinese Revolution served as an inspiration or even a model of true national independence. For those on the right, this very identification with the PRC, like the lack of respect for state symbols, was emblematic of the unnatural separation between nation and state and constituted a major impediment to the recovery of national identity.
4 Neither defeat nor democratization sounded the death knell for Japanese nationalism. Defeat and democracy, “. . ”5 In the end, disastrous defeat and foreign-imposed democracy probably only strengthened national consciousness and injected new energy into the project to define national identity. This is not to deny the peculiar challenges that defeat and the postwar domestic and international political environment posed for the articulation of a postwar Japanese national identity. Especially problematic in this regard was reconciling the relationship between the Japanese state and the Japanese nation.
Like many Japanese, Yoshida saw the PRC leadership as motivated primarily by nationalism rather than communist ideology. 18 Thus, Yoshida was not overly troubled by the foundation of the PRC or the alliance with the Soviet Union. The Sino-Soviet alliance was bound to fail, he maintained, and rather than containing the alliance, the West should seek to hasten its demise. As it happened, increased Sino-Japanese trade would be not only profitable but also helpful in driving a wedge in the Sino-Soviet alliance.
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