Patriotism in East Asia

This book contributes to the debates surrounding patriotism and nationalism in Northeast Asia, and investigates the feasibility of non-ethnocentric patriotism in countries across the region. In doing so, it highlights the differences between Asian and Western concepts of republican patriotism via theoretical discussions of the evolving discourses on nationalism, patriotism, democracy and civic solidarity.

Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Professor of the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University, China. Koichiro Matsuda is Professor of Japanese Political Thought at Rikkyo University, Japan.

Part I: Introduction 1. Patriotism in East Asian Context Part II: General Overview 2. Patrotism, Diversity and Belonging 3. Patrotism and Nationalism: 'Republican Patriotism' in the Northeast Asian Context Part III: Historical Enquiries 4. Nationalism or Republican Patriotism - Rethinking Nationalistic Ideas of the Late Qing Reformers 5. "Patriotism" and 'Nationality' in the 19th Century Japanese Political Thought 6. Patriotism with Nationalism in the Early Modern Korea: Yi Kwangsu's Colonial Collaboration Part IV: Reinterpreting Patriotism in East Asian Countries 7. Reconstructing China beyond Homogeneity: An Interdisciplinary View 8. An Alternative Idea of Nationalism in Postwar Japan: The case of Maruyama Masao 9. Statist Nationalism and South Korea's National Security Law 10. In Pursuit of Equality and Liberty: Taiwan's Indigenous Political Movement in the 1920s