Japanese Modern Intellectual History

From the second half of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, Japan experienced violent turmoil. In less than a century, Japan, which is located in a corner of Asia, was involved in the world market, from building a modern country to pursuing becoming a "Japan of the world" to finally being defeated and surrendered in World War II. Japan's modernization process was also a process of fierce confrontation between different ideas. In the face of national construction, Japanese thinkers have proposed different national concepts, including Japan's greatest enlightenment thinker Fukuzawa Yukichi, the Western Zhou Dynasty who is famous for translating the word "philosophy", Nakae Zhaomin who is known as the "Oriental Rousseau", Tokutomi Sufeng who founded the Minyou Society, Yanagi Soetsu, the promoter of the folk art movement, the socialist theorist Kotoku Shusui, Japanese feminist Hiratsuka Thunderbird, etc. Focusing on these thinkers and their representative works, combined with the background of the times and quoting the original works as much as possible, this book introduces the Enlightenment thought, the thought of freedom and civil rights, nationalism, human rights thought, people-oriented thought, cultural education, folk thought, scientific thought, feminism, etc.