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...Urs Matthias Zachmann Duke University Press 2007 Blowing Up a Double Portrait in Black and White: The Concept of Asia in the Writings of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Okakura Tenshin Urs Matthias Zachmann Questioning the East/West Binary in Meiji Intellectual History...

... interesting, however, is how active the rhetoric of Fukuzawa Yukichi’s “Out of Asia” is in the essay Nishio wrote in the previous month’s issue, “Because We Can Trust So Intensely, We Can Doubt Intensely.” When our country opened...

... to focus on the presence or absence of particular political structures as a measure of democracy and modernity. By contrast, Maruyama looked to modes of thought in creating a politically conscious citizenry. Like Fukuzawa Yukichi ¯ in the late...

... to, the world economy’s masculinized subjects. Hypermasculinity as a vehicle for economic development originates from the very beginnings of “modernization” in Asia. Fukuzawa Yukichi, nineteenth-century Japan’s most famous advocate of Western...

... by Fukuzawa Yukichi in his My Views on Current Affairs and “Heredity and Ability.”9 And in 1884, Fukuzawa’s student Takahashi Yoshio had already put forth the argument for mixed marriages between the white and yellow races in his Improving the Japanese...

... warily embraced in programs to create new educational and political systems and the institutions of a capitalist economy, posed a second prob- lem of differentiating Japan from Europe. Proponents of civilization and enlightenment such as Fukuzawa...

... of Asia for Meiji Japan. In a close, defamiliarizing reading of the classic and disseminative debate between Okakura Tenshin and Fukuzawa Yukichi, Zachmann argues against the dominant reading that they are, in fact, polar opposites, representing...

... by such enlightenment intellectuals as Fukuzawa Yukichi to create a feeling of nationality among those inhabiting the Japanese archipelago in the early Meiji period, despite the fact that Fukuzawa is not explicitly mentioned in this article. In his Bunmei ron...

... was only one side of the debate on prostitution in prewar Japan. Sup- porters of prostitution, too, associated their political agendas with the well-­ being of the Japanese nation and empire. For example, progressive thinker Fukuzawa Yukichi argued...

..., and they offer similarly idealist solutions to this pathological condition. For Maruyama the flexible and independent subjectivity, such as he discovered in Meiji intellectual Fukuzawa Yukichi, could unite the divided spheres; for Kat¯o...

... the enlightened credo of Kang Youwei, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Zhou Jianren, Tan Sitong, Yi Nai, Tang Caichang, Liang Qichao, and Li Dazhao.She ties the Chinese phenomenon to the scientific racism of Japanese eugenic theorists Fukuzawa Yukichi, Takahashi Yoshio...

... essays on Fukuzawa Yukichi, meant that Japan was not ready for the development of the modern subject.13 In the political sphere, people, as Fukuzawa pointed out earlier, had to be tutored, they had to be led. Hence, the need for rational...

... the Sino-­Japanese War, enlightenment scholars such as Fukuzawa Yukichi opined that Japan must leave Asia and enter Europe. This view of China as separate from Japan or as an object of knowledge in a scientific framework...

... and continued through Fukuzawa Yukichi and the popular-rights activists of the. Meiji years. Furthermore, Maruyama began his analysis of Japan’s flirtation with modernity by con- trasting it with a China that he described as hopelessly incapable...

... favored Li Hongzhang’s fleet over Japan’s. Although Japanese newspapers, magazines, and manga fiction were marked by exhilaration at the pros- pect of war with China, some Japanese were not confident of victory. The publicist Fukuzawa Yukichi...

... and Southeast Asian nations) — as a way of counterbalancing the West.25 This led to two apparently opposite theories: Datsu – A ron, or “dissociating from Asia and integrating with Europe,” proposed by Fukuzawa Yukichi; and “Asia is one,” originally...

... held up the Meiji-­era intellectual Fukuzawa Yukichi. In their focus on the individual and their thought, the Shis no kagaku cofounders shared the modernist attentiveness to ethos, and the interplay between subjectivity and reality evident...

...- lized an impressive list of expert witnesses, including Shibusawa Tatsuhiko, a man of letters and defendant in the Marquis de Sade trial, and Fukuzawa Ichir¯o, a surrealist painter who was arrested with Takiguchi during the war. Others were Ikeda...

... were indeed the object of constant suppression by the police and military during the war, most notably the Japanese surrealists. For example, when the two leading surrealists Takiguchi Shz (1903 – 79) and Fukuzawa Ichir (1898 – 1992) were...

... In Japan, for instance, Tagore’s antinationalism contrasted with the fairly extreme nationalism of Japanese social thinker Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835 –1901), who moved toward “a more nationalistic and chauvinistic attitude between...