White Peril/Yellow Peril and Japan’s Pan-Asian Visions, 1850- 1930

Owen Griffiths

Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

Course Reader no. #13 2014

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OWEN GRIFFITHS Mount Allison University

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White Peril/Yellow Peril and Japan’s Pan-Asian Visions, 1850-1930

Introduction

Pan-Asianism in Historical Context

Sven Saaler and Christopher W. A. Szpilman

Sven Saaler and Christopher W. A. Szpilman, “Pan-Asianism as an Ideal of Asian Identity and Solidarity, 1850–Present”, The Asia- Pacific Journal 9.17.1, April 25, 2011.

Cemil Aydin

Cemil Aydin, “Japan’s Pan-Asianism and the Legitimacy of Imperial World Order, 1931–1945,” The Asia Pacific Journal March 12, 2008.

The Yellow Peril in War, Economics, and Popular Culture

Owen Griffiths

Owen Griffiths, “Militarizing Japan: Patriotism, Profit, and Children’s Print Media, 1894-1925,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, September 22, 2007.

Daniel A. Métraux

Daniel A. Métraux, "Jack London: The Adventurer-Writer who Chronicled Asian Wars, Confronted Racism—and Saw the Future," The Asia-Pacific Journal, 4.3.10, January 25, 2010.

Richard Bradshaw and Jim Ransdell

Richard Bradshaw and Jim Ransdell, “Japan, Britain and the Yellow Peril in Africa in the 1930s,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 9.44.2, October 31, 2011.

The Contradictions of Empire

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Tessa Morris-Suzuki, “Migrants, Subjects, Citizens: Comparative Perspectives on Nationality in the Prewar Japanese Empire,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, August 28, 2008.

Erin L. Murphy

Erin L. Murphy, “Women's Anti-Imperialism, 'The White Man's Burden,” and the Philippine-American War," The Asia-Pacific Journal, 27.1.09, July 6, 2009.

Paul A. Kramer

Paul A. Kramer, “Race-Making and Colonial Violence in the U.S. Empire: The Philippine-American War as Race War,” The Asia- Pacific Journal, June 2, 2006.