An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzō And a New Liberal Order in East Asia, 1905-1937

by Jung-Sun N. Han

An Imperial Path to Modernity examines the role of liberal intellectuals in reshaping transnational ideas and internationalist aspirations into national values and imperial ambitions in early twentieth-century Japan. Perceiving the relationship between liberalism and the international world order, a cohort of Japanese thinkers conformed to liberal ideas and institutions to direct Japan's transformation into a liberal empire in Asia. To sustain and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674065719
• ISBN13: 9780674065710
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"