pan-Asianism

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English

Etymology

From pan-Asian +‎ -ism.

Noun

pan-Asianism (uncountable)

  1. An ideology aimed at creating a political and economic unity among Asian peoples.
    • 2012, Alexander Bukh, “Japan’s diplomacy and culture”, in B.J.C. McKercher, editor, Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part II (The Great Powers), page 100:
      Obviously, it would be an oversimplification to argue that the ideology of pan-Asianism caused Japan’s expansionism, as the ideology itself developed together with Japan’s expansionist policies.
    • 2014, Anna Belogurova, “Communism in South East Asia”, in Stephen A. Smith, editor, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part III (Global Communism), page 239:
      In general, communist understandings of nationhood proved more successful than less statist conceptions, such as ideas based on the Muslim community, the Malay bangsa, or ideas proffered by the millennarian religions such as Cao Dai and Hoa Hao in Vietnam, whose pan-Asianism caused them to side with Japan in the war against French colonial rule.
    • 2016, Heather Streets-Salter, “International and Global Anti-colonial Movements”, in Antoinette Burton, Tony Ballantyne, editors, World Histories From Below: Disruption and Dissent, 1750 to the Present, London: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 57:
      Like pan-Africanism, pan-Asianism called for the solidarity of Asian peoples everywhere to counter the global dominance of the west.

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