HISA06H3 Lecture 7: HISA06 - Lecture 7 - Pan-Asianism and the Rise of Japan
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An ideology that promoted a spiritual and cultural kinship, friendship, and connection of all asian peoples. Different idea of asia, without being violent. Romantic idea of a certain kind of friend/kinship. Until 1868, it was a shogun government. Majority of people were not part of the government. Minority of people part of samurai class. Used education as a form of propaganda to promote a new japan. Compare and contrast japan"s encounter with western power with what you learned about. Were able to because they were smaller and more successful to absorb western culture as opposed to china. Idea of panasianism, first developed in japan and then became popular in china and. By 1931, it became clear that pan asianism was in fact an ideological justification for. Used for friendship and kinship, also became justification for japanese elitism. End of the feudal shoguns and samurai. Westernization but at the same time, a search for an authentic cultural symbols for nationalism.
