Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asiaкнига
Аннотация: Colonialism and modernity are indivisible features of the history of industrial capitalism.That much has been clear since Marx pointed out the crucial role colonialism played in the transformations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, although the ways that Marx's own narratives centered Europe and personified European capitalism's emancipatory potential are not theoretically or empirically viable.Leninist and Maoist analyses of imperialism have expanded thinking on the historical relationship between colonial exploitation and modernity, as have anticolonial wars of national liberation fought in the name of Lenin and Mao and scholarship engaged in the politics of decolonization.All this is only to reestablish three points: The first is that "modernity" must not be mistaken for a thing in itself, for that sleight of hand obliterates the context of political economy.The second is that once modernity is construed to be prior to colonialism, it becomes all too easy to assume, wrongly, the existence of an originary and insurmountable temporal lag separating colonialism from modernity.Thus, the third point is that the modernity of non-European colonies is as indisputable as the colonial core of European modernity.However, not much of this consensus on colonialism and the discourses of modernity was admitted into East Asian area studies until very recently.Looking from the inside out, academic scholarship and popular knowledge about East Asia had remained almost unbearably static, constrained for decades by, among other things, a naturalization of the knowledge field.For years, the dominant wing of East Asian historiography maintained that "China, Japan, and Korea" form one very long lived, very real, historically very homogeneous, social-cultural totality.Knowledge about this naturalized region was transparent and descriptive, analogous to that of the biological sciences, and therefore it enforced the idea that the building blocks
Год издания: 1997
Авторы: Tani A. Barlow
Издательство: Duke University Press
Источник: Duke University Press eBooks
Ключевые слова: Japanese History and Culture, Chinese history and philosophy, Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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