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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465021103321

Titolo

Okakura Tenshin and Pan-Asianism [[electronic resource] ] : shadows of the past / / edited by Brij Tankha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Folkestone, Kent, U.K., : Global Oriental, 2009

ISBN

1-282-08900-5

9786612089008

90-04-21323-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Collana

Brill eBook titles 2010

Altri autori (Persone)

TankhaBrij

Disciplina

337.15

Soggetti

Regionalism - Asia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published as: Shadows of the past of Okakura Tenshin and pan-Asianism. Calcutta : SAMPARK, 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Okakura Tenshin : crafting an ideal -- pt. 2. Asian Pan-Asianisms -- pt. 3. Art and Asia : varieties of engagement -- pt. 4. Ways of defining Asia.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume explores four key themes emanating from Okakura Tenshin’s philosophy and legacy: Okakura Tenshin and the Ideal of Pan-Asianism; Other Forms of Pan-Asianism (especially Islam and China); Art and Asia, and Ways of Defining Asia (up to the present day). Okakura Tenshin (1862-1913), art historian and ideologue driven by a notion of Asia bound by culture, is a significant figure in Japan’s modern intellectual history. His writings in both Japanese and English became part of a growing discourse that positioned Japan as the guardian and protector of Asia against the depredations, cultural as much as economic and political, of the West. At the outbreak of the Pacific War, the first line of Okakura’s 1903 book (‘Asia is One’), The Ideals of the East , was celebrated posthumously by the Japanese military as the most powerful expression of Japan’s goal of political ascendancy in Asia.