The Ideological Background of Japanese Expansionism, C. 1900

What is it about?

This is a study of some features of Japanese nationalism at the turn of the twentieth century. It ieeks to show that the emergence of Japanese nationalism was not primarily the result of the reception of European ideologies but primarily a response to the forced inclusion into the European-dominated international system.

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Why is it important?

The article takes issue with the view, still dominating global historiography, that cross-cultural transfers mainly consisted in acts of the passive reception of cultural goods and opens new perspectives for the analysis of processes of local responses tp göobal interferences.