pan-Asianism

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^[sic] 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.

Further reading

• Pan-Asianism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia