... . xviii, 99. Bibliography. $1.65. Japan 1931–1945; Militarism, Fascism, Japanism? . Edited by Ivan Morris . Boston : D. C. Heath and Company , 1963 . xviii, 77. Glossary, Bibliography. $1.65. 1857 in India; Mutiny or War of Independence? . Edited by Ainslee T. Embree . Boston : D. C...

...Hilary Conroy Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 VOL. XL, No. 2 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES FEBRUARY 1981 Communications to the Editor Concerning Japanese Fascism Although the articles on Japanese fascism presented in the November 1979 issue of the Journal of Asian Studies...

...Peter Duus; Daniel I. Okimoto Abstract Following the end of the Second World War, Japanese and foreign scholars eagerly seized upon the concept of fascism as the basis of an analytic framework for explaining what had gone wrong in pre-war Japan and who, if anyone, could be held responsible...

...Miles Fletcher Abstract Using the concept of fascism for analyzing political developments in early Shōwa Japan has become a controversial topic, and a lively debate about a general definition of fascism has raged among scholars of modern European history. This article presents a new interpretation...

... similarities.” Building on the works of earlier scholars of Chinese history as well as of fascism, Clinton offers us some interesting interpretive insights along the way into the internal tensions and contradictions in the world of the CC Clique and Blue Shirts. One of her central themes, for example...

... for its exceptional achievements, with attention falling on its presumably exceptional cultural attributes. By the same token, classic analyses of Japan's cultural experience with the negative phenomena of modernity such as imperialism, fascism, and war—among them the early postwar essays of political...

...Peter Duus The Culture of Japanese Fascism . Edited by Alan Tansman . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2009 . xii , 477 pp. $99.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 After finishing this fascinating but frequently...

...Victor Zatsepine Manchukuo Perspectives: Transnational Approaches to Literary Production . Edited by Annika A. Culver and Norman Smith . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2020 . xii, 315 pp. ISBN: 9789888528134 (cloth). Fascism in Manchuria: The Soviet-China Encounter...

...Reto Hofmann Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937 . By Maggie Clinton . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2017 . xi, 268 pp. ISBN: 9780822363774 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018...

...A. James Gregor; Maria Hsia Chang Abstract This article attempts an assessment of the putative similarities between generic fascism and the revolutionary nationalism of Sun Yat-sen. Whatever characteristics the two ideologies have in common can be traced to similarities between Sun's thought...

... as “the ideological father of Japanese fascism,” and his 1919 book on the “reorganization” of Japan (later published as Nihon kaizō hōan taikō) has been called by Kuno Osamu “the Mein Kampf of the Shõwa ultranationalist movement.” 50 Kuno and Tsurumi, pp. 138–139, emphasize this point of similarity between Kita...

... of the putative similarities between generic fascism and the revolutionary nationalism of Sun Yat-sen. Whatever characteristics the two ideologies have in common can be traced to similarities between Sun's thought and pre-Fascist Italian Nationalism. The latter was only one of the elements that contributed...

...Mark Driscoll The final section, “Ideological Formation: Colluding with the Past,” is a culmination of Harootunian's global intellectual framework. The last essay in the book, “The Persistence of Archaism/The Persistence of Fascism,” deftly moves from Japan to the United States, and along...

... on the social history of modern rural India, and should ring familiar bells not only in the minds of social historians of modern South Asia, but also those of East Asia. The centerpiece of this issue is the set of three essays dealing with the problem of fascism in twentieth century China and Japan. Professor...

... notion of a second "great transformation" of capitalism, one that in late developers took the form of fascism. Like Yamanouchi, Gao sees the differentia specifica 1160 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of fascism as its "rejection of the democratic principle in politics" combined with a "policy of compulsory...

.... In support of his argument ing. $6.75. he reminds us of certain features of Japanese The author of this work, Maruyama Masao, fascism. There was, first of all, an emphasis on of Tokyo University, is a towering figure in the idea of the family as the model of political Japanese political science...

... REVIEWS 159 sity Press, 1963. xvii, 344. Glossary and continuation of social currents originating in Biographies, Chronology, Suggested Read- the Meiji period. In support of his argument ing. $6.75. he reminds us of certain features of Japanese The author of this work, Maruyama Masao, fascism...

... University. Intellectual historians have long argued that the Kyoto School thinkers endowed the violent ideologies of wartime Japan, including fascism, with a philosophical aura, noting that their abstract ruminations on world history in particular amounted to a Hegelian attempt to justify Japan's war...

...Alexis Dudden Each essay offers much to chew on, yet two truly stand out: “The Allegory of Oe Kenzaburo” (pp. 87–114) and “Buddhism and Fascism” (pp. 173–209). In these pieces, in elegantly complementary ways, Karatani interrogates deep questions of human existence in terms of contingency...

... for the blunders of FrancoBritish foreign policy. He recognizes that appeasement was ultimately stupid and based upon a misapprehension of the character of fascism, but he argues that Chamberlain's policy was in part inevitable because of the inadequacy of British armaments. French passivity in the face...