Doomed to Collapse? An Analysis of Japanese China Critics'' Perspectives And The Origins of Their Ideas during Second Abe Cabinet

• Main Authors: Shin-Pei Fu, 傅心姵
• Other Authors: Teng-chi Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/mfu7tu

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 105 === This article adopts five best-selling China-related books, written by Japanese China critics and published during 2012-2014 when “Ken-chu-hon” boomed in Japanese publication industry, as the major analysis texts. To penetrate the implicit ideas and values in these literatures and the emergence and changes of these thoughts across Japanese history, this thesis is formulated in three sections: First, how the mentioned texts judge and criticize the concepts of “chu-goku”, its history and nationhood. Second, how they narrate the modern Chinese society and people. Last, the critiques and the authors’ understanding of the history between Japan and China. The result shows that the criticism on China in “ken-chu-hon” boom reflects the ethnocentrism which has been present since early modern Japan, and reproducing the despising-China sentiment from Meiji Restoration. This complex towards China provokes booming publication of China-related books in Japan when the bilateral relationship goes down since 1990s. By separating modern China from ancient China , taking Western values as standards, or stressing the superior features in Japanese society and culture, the criticism on modern China shapes Japan’s relatively superior status to the former, and thus moderate the threaten feeling resulted from its rising neighbor. Consequently, the purpose of the research conducted here is to crystallize the definition of “ken-chu”, and to categorize all the “ken-chu” discourses into three types: Confucian-moral superiority, Western-value superiority, Japanese-tradition superiority.