Qingmo de Zhongri hezuo: Riben Hengbin datong xuexiao wei yanjiu duixiang [Sino-Japanese Cooperation in the Late Qing Dynasty: The Datong School in Yokohama]

Craig Smith

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    Abstract

    The establishment of the Datong Schools in Yokohama and Tokyo is a symbol of Chinese intellectual efforts to confront the crisis brought on by Western imperialism. Unable to bring about meaningful reform in China, they turned to Japan as a place in which they could both effectively study the so-called 'New Learning' as well as train a new generation to bring China into modernity without losing them to the West. These few years represent a period of Sino-Japanese elite cooperation in which a Confucian-centered Asian modernity was imagined. This article examines the Datong Schools as sites of cooperation, considering the efforts of early Japanese Asianists and pro-Japanese reformers from China to create a modem educated Chinese youth within the framework of this modernity in order to save China and East Asia from Western imperialism.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationOut of Bounds Sinophone Perspectives on Chinese Cultural History
    Editors David Der-wei Wang
    Place of PublicationTaiwan
    PublisherDepartment of Chinese Literature National Chung Cheng University
    Pages225-247
    EditionFirst
    ISBN (Print)978-986-89620-7-1
    Publication statusPublished - 2017

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