Modernities in Northeast Asia: Political Theories in East Asian Context

Part 1: General Overview  1. Introduction: Modernities in Northeast Asia  Part 2: Modernity and Tradition  2. Equality and Nationality: the Emergence of Modern Identity Politics  3. China and the Production of its Own Hybridic Modernity  Part 3: Embracing and Resisting Modernity  4. The Meanings of the 1919 Moment in China: Sovereignty, Connectivity, and National Awakening  5. Marginalized Science of Modernity: Statistics and Building a Nation-State Without Knowing Oneself  6. Donghak, Confucianism, and the Porous Nature of Modernity in Late Joseon Korea  Part 4: Redefining Modernities  7. Modernity Before Its Time: China’s Zhou-Qin Transition (770-221 B.C.E.) as an Early Modernization  8. How Tradition Informs Chinese Modernity: A Progressive Conservative Perspective  9. Multiple Dialogues over Modernity: Considerations on Maruyama Masao’s Political Thought  10. Competing Modernities in Colony and Metropol: The Establishment of the Police System in Meiji Japan

Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China.
Ken Cheng taught at the School of International Studies at Sun Yat-Sen University (Zhuhai), China, from 2020 to 2023.