Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Humiliation and Modernity: Reflections on Pan-Asian and Pan-Islamic Discourses
Cemil Aydin discusses the two crucial aspects of Pan-Asian and Pan-Islamic thought in contemporary East Asia and the Muslim world.
When:
December 5, 2007 12:00am
Where
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Cemil Aydin, Near East Studies, Princeton University
The history of Pan-Asian thought is still a controversial topic both in scholarly and non-scholarly writings. Why did the Pan-Asian discourse appeal to so many intellectuals in China, Japan, Korea and India, in a period retrospectively described as the formative era of nationalism? What are the contemporary legacies of Pan-Asian discourses that accompanied both Japanese imperial projects and anti-colonial thought in Asia? After emphasizing the global context of Pan-Asian thought in reference to its parallels to Pan-Islamic ideas, this paper will underline two important characteristics of anti-Western internationalisms in Asia. The first is the geopoliticization of globalization from the 1880s to 1914. The second is the formation of a modernist historical consciousness in Asia that underlined the themes of humiliation and redemption in describing civilizational relations with the “West.” These two crucial aspects of Pan-Asian and Pan-Islamic thought can help us better undertand their long lasting legacies in contemporary thought in East Asia and the Muslim world.
Cost:
Free
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