... . 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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 scientist Maruyama Masao that in many ways defined the scholarly genre—framed...

...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...

... deployment of revolutionary rhetoric and modernist aesthetics” (p. 8). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937 . By Maggie Clinton . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2017 . xi, 280 pp. ISBN...

... Vincent strain the hardest to identify a “fascist aesthetic” or tie a cultural product to fascism. Both offer fascinating discussions of mystery stories with homoerotic themes. Reichert suggests that while Edogawa Rampō's Demon of the Lonely Isle titillates the reader with a tale of an unrequited sexual...

...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.” 54 This line of analysis forms the basis for an assessment of Taishō social...

... 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...

... 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 Gregor and Ms. Chang's article on the affinities and contrasts between Sun Yat-sen's...

... 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...

... words, Karatani's supple and rich grasp of the workings and belief systems inherent to True Land Buddhism, for example (made clear in the chapter “Buddhism and Fascism”), make his sweeping claims about “the concept of the Middle Ages” in Germany (in a prior chapter, p. 50) ring true. On top...

... ideological distinction vis-à-vis the issue of class politics was perhaps not as important to some members of the Guomindang coalition as Dai Jitao or Tsui himself suggest. This criticism aside, by highlighting the fundamental similarities between GMD political culture and European or Japanese fascisms...

... 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...