Ideals and Reality: Sun Yat-sen’s Dream for Asia
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Zhang Kaiyuan
Abstract
When planning China’s future revolution, Sun Yat-sen at one time used the model of the West. Since China is after all a part of Asia, however, and as his understanding of the corrupt and critical state of the Western system of capitalism grew, he eventually looked once again to Asia. He advocated collaborating with Japan, and approved of allying with various oppressed peoples in Asia. He planned to join forces with other Asian nations in order to stop Western encroachment in Asia. He divided the world into two major categories: the oppressors and the oppressed. He sought independence, equality, prosperity, and power for the oppressed, and proposed a new world order of peace and justice. He considered nationalism to be the basis of cosmopolitanism. Only by restoring national equality to the oppressed nations would those nations be able to move toward cosmopolitanism. For Sun, societies should deal appropriately with the relationship between cosmopolitanism and nationalism, both of which necessarily were to endure profound, universal judgment from people around the world. Humankind was to reawaken and rally together to help their own respective cultures. China’s traditional morality was to spread to merge with the morally good elements of every country in the world, creating the foundation for building a new world citizen morality.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Preface
- Address at the Opening Session of the Third Annual Meeting at Huazhong Normal University on May 7, 2011
- Articles
- The Regional Structure of the 1911 Revolution: The North and the South in Chinese History
- The 1911 Revolution and the Korean Independence Movement: The Road to Democratic Republicanism
- Gained in Translation: Ezra Pound, Hu Shi, and Literary Revolution
- Opinion Forum
- Ideals and Reality: Sun Yat-sen’s Dream for Asia
- Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s Pan-Asianism Revisited: Its Historical Context and Contemporary Relevance
- Huang Xing and Traditional Chinese Culture
- Research Trends
- Zhang Peiheng’s A New History of Chinese Literature and Its Japanese Translation
- Manchu Studies in Korea
- Book Reviews
- Review of Zhai zi Zhongguo: Chongjian youguan “Zhongguo” de lishi lunshu Dwelling Here in China: Reconstructing the History of the Concept of China, by Ge Zhaoguang. Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 2011 .
- Review of Kinsei Higashi Ajia kaiiki no bunka kōshō Cultural Interactions in Maritime East Asia during Premodern Times, by Matsuura Akira. Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2010
- Review of Bunka kōshō gaku to gengo sesshoku: Chūgoku gengogaku ni okeru shūen kara no apurōchi Cultural Interaction Studies and Linguistic Contact: The Peripheral Approach in Chinese Linguistics, by Uchida Keiichi. Suita, Japan: Kansai Daigaku Shuppanbu, 2010
- Posttheoretical Research in the History of Japanese Thought Review of Riben jinxiandai sixiangshi - A History of Modern Japanese Thought, by Liu Yuebing. Beijing: Shijie Zhishi Chubanshe, 2010
- Introduction of Major Institutions
- The Institute of Oriental and Occidental Studies at Kansai University
- Institute of International Maritime Affairs at Korea Maritime University
- The Research Institute of Korean Studies at Korea University
- Research Center for Nonwritten Cultural Materials at Kanagawa University
- Japanese Research Institute at Nankai University
- The East Asian Cultural Research Team of the Research Center for International Japanese Studies at Hosei University
- CONTRIBUTION GUIDELINES
Articles in the same Issue
- Preface
- Address at the Opening Session of the Third Annual Meeting at Huazhong Normal University on May 7, 2011
- Articles
- The Regional Structure of the 1911 Revolution: The North and the South in Chinese History
- The 1911 Revolution and the Korean Independence Movement: The Road to Democratic Republicanism
- Gained in Translation: Ezra Pound, Hu Shi, and Literary Revolution
- Opinion Forum
- Ideals and Reality: Sun Yat-sen’s Dream for Asia
- Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s Pan-Asianism Revisited: Its Historical Context and Contemporary Relevance
- Huang Xing and Traditional Chinese Culture
- Research Trends
- Zhang Peiheng’s A New History of Chinese Literature and Its Japanese Translation
- Manchu Studies in Korea
- Book Reviews
- Review of Zhai zi Zhongguo: Chongjian youguan “Zhongguo” de lishi lunshu Dwelling Here in China: Reconstructing the History of the Concept of China, by Ge Zhaoguang. Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 2011 .
- Review of Kinsei Higashi Ajia kaiiki no bunka kōshō Cultural Interactions in Maritime East Asia during Premodern Times, by Matsuura Akira. Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2010
- Review of Bunka kōshō gaku to gengo sesshoku: Chūgoku gengogaku ni okeru shūen kara no apurōchi Cultural Interaction Studies and Linguistic Contact: The Peripheral Approach in Chinese Linguistics, by Uchida Keiichi. Suita, Japan: Kansai Daigaku Shuppanbu, 2010
- Posttheoretical Research in the History of Japanese Thought Review of Riben jinxiandai sixiangshi - A History of Modern Japanese Thought, by Liu Yuebing. Beijing: Shijie Zhishi Chubanshe, 2010
- Introduction of Major Institutions
- The Institute of Oriental and Occidental Studies at Kansai University
- Institute of International Maritime Affairs at Korea Maritime University
- The Research Institute of Korean Studies at Korea University
- Research Center for Nonwritten Cultural Materials at Kanagawa University
- Japanese Research Institute at Nankai University
- The East Asian Cultural Research Team of the Research Center for International Japanese Studies at Hosei University
- CONTRIBUTION GUIDELINES
