The Limits of Westernization: American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860 - 1960

ISBN-13: 9781138068209 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 270 str.

Jon T. Davidann

Opis

The goal of this project is to locate the origins and development of modern thought in the United States and East Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While a strong literature on post-war modernization exists, there is a gap in the pre-war origins and development of modern ideas. This book re-evaluates the influence of the United States on East Asia in the twentieth century and gives greater voice to East Asians in the construction of their own ideas of modernity.

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Historical Writing and the Limits of Westernization; 1: Early East Asian Pioneers of Modernity, 1860-1910;2: The Development of Modernity in American Thought, 1890s-1910s;3: John Dewey’s Trip to China, Hu Shih, Lu Xun, and Chinese Modernity, 1919-1920;4: American and Japanese Internationalism and Modernity in the 1920s;5: Modernity in Crisis, 1930s-1940s;6: The Postwar Transformation; Afterward; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Jon Thares Davidann is Professor of History, Hawai’i Pacific University.