Confucianism at War

Shaun O’Dwyer is a professor in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at Kyushu University, Japan. His research focuses on philosophy and the history of ideas.

1. Introduction: Confucianism at War 1931–1945: A Background Discussion 2. On the Contextual Turn of Mencius’s “Kingly Way” in Wartime Japan (1931–45) 3. The Invention and Creation of the “Way”: The Shibunkai’s Discourse on the Kingly Way and Imperial Way after the Establishment of Manchukuo 4. Confucianism and Pan-Asianism in Modern Japan 5. Confucianism and Wartime State-Building in China: The Case of Filial Piety 6. The Shibunkai’s Confucian Diplomacy and the Flight of Kong Decheng 7. The Genealogy of Imperial Way Confucianism between Daitō Bunka Gakuin and the Shibunkai 8. Reconstructing the Nation: A Critique of Confucianism in Lee Gwang-su’s Political Thought 9. Gendered Independence and Submission: Wang Fengyi’s Moral Philosophy of Education and Manchukuo 10. Collaboration and Confucianism in Manchukuo, and in China under the Wang Jingwei Regime 11. A Grand Tour under the Empire’s Eye: Colonial Landscapes and Assimilation in Shionoya On’s Taiwan Travelogue 12. The Contradictions of Confucian Personalism: Yasuoka Masahiro and the Japanese Invasion of Asia (1931–1945) 13. Yamato Nadeshiko’s Loyalty to the State: Confucian Rhetoric for Japanese Women in Wartime (1937–1945) 14. From the Path of the Superior Person to Control of the Masses: The Revolution in the Rectification of Names and the Debate about Takada Shinji’s Rectification of Names 15. Confucianism, Nationalism, and Nihonjinron in Watsuji Tetsurō’s Climate