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Title

Modernity and national identity in the United States and East Asia, 1895-1919 / Carol C. Chin.

Author

Chin, Carol C., 1955-

Publication

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2010.

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Description

xi, 260 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

• In the period between the Sino-Japanese War in the mid-1890's and the end of World War I, the United States, China, and Japan found themselves, in different ways, seeking to redefine their national identities.
• By examining the connections between culture and nationhoodùthe gendered nature of concepts like modernity, the role of women in the construction and projection of a nation's identity, and the relationship between national identity and power projectionùauthor Carol C. Chin examines the dual characteristics of nationalism with which these three nations were grappling: the push to embrace a universal standard of modernity and the desire to retain the cultural distinctiveness on which their identity was founded.
• Chin considers how the United States, China's, and Japan's understandings of modernity shaped, and were shaped by, notions of their place in the world. Drawing on multinational archival and published primary sources, Chin highlights Americans' ambivalence about their nation's role in the world, China's struggle to adapt its worldview to the realities of modern international relations, and the increasingly uneasy relationship between the United States and Japan.
• Filling a major gap in the literature, Modernity and National Identity in the United States and East Asia, 1895-1919 is a comprehensive, thought-provoking intellectual history of American, Chinese, and Japanese thinking on modernity, national identity, and internationalism during the early twentieth century. Those with an interest in U.S. foreign relations, women's and gender history, and U.S.-Asian relations will find this an innovative and fascinating title. --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

New studies in U.S. foreign relations

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• New studies in U.S. foreign relations.

Subject

• 1865-1999
• National characteristics, American
• National characteristics, Chinese
• National characteristics, Japanese
• Civilization, Modern > 20th century
• United States > Foreign relations > 1865-1921
• China > Foreign relations > 20th century
• Japan > Foreign relations > 1868-1912
• Japan > Foreign relations > 1912-1926

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-251) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Civilization and national identity -- Modernity and empire -- Beneficent imperialists -- Chinese modernity and the "new woman" -- Nationalism and internationalism -- Power and national identity in wartime.

ISBN

• 9781606350416 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1606350412 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010020013

OCLC

• 499451044
• SCSB-12259289

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library