On The Mainstream School Of Pan-Asianism Ideological Trend Between China And Japan

The Asian ideological first appeared in Japan in late 19th century, it initially advocated the Asian countries to jointly resist to the aggression of Western countries in Asia, thereby protecting their sovereignty and national spirits. At the early 20th century, both China and Japan had a mainstream school of Asia ideological trend, where the mainstream school of Japan Asian ideological trend was based on the mainstream of right wing school, while the mainstream school of Asian ideological trend in China was based on the mainstream of the Revolucionaria School.In the late 19th century, due to the aggression of the Western colonial powers and oppression, both China and Japan emerged national crisis, the two countries were looking for the correct way to restore the country. This was the common reason for the emergence of the Asian ideological trend in the two countries. However, at the earlier stage of 20th century, Japan sought the colonial hegemony in the Greater East Asia, and China sought for the nation’s salvation and survival, therefore, Asian ideological trend of the two countries formed two distinct mainstream schools.The Asian ideological trend in Japan and China are considered "developing Asia", "United Asia" as the basic theory, namely, advocating all Asian countries to unite to resist the aggression as the community of destiny. Though both are similar in form, but they are entirely different in principle. After the Meiji Restoration, since the Japanese government strongly pursued an expansion of militarism in East Asia, the Asia ideological trend in Japan was gradually changed, namely, the right wing thinking with the guise of "United Asia" but actually implemented the schemes of "Asian invasion" and "Swallow Asia", and this became the mainstream school of Asian ideological trend of Japan. Under the influence of Asian ideological trend in Japan, in the early period of 20th century, there was also the Asian ideological trend, namely the national revolutionaries Sun Yat-sen, Zhang Taiyan, Li Dazhao put forward their theories of Asia:"Great Asianism" advocated by Sun Yat-sen, which not only advocated carrying forward the traditional Asian culture, but also advocated learning the advanced science and technology in Western countries, various nations in Asia was jointed together on this basis in order to struggle for themselves; Zhang Taiyan proposed "Asian Pro-theory", advocating that the Asian countries should join together to be against imperialism; Li Dazhao proposed a "New Asianism", and he advocated that Asia was oppressed, and he advocated joint struggle for the nations in Asia to fight for national independence and national self-determination. The mainstream school of Asian ideological trend in China at that time played an active role in revolutionary cause of anti-imperialist aggression; but also encouraged the revolutionary cause and liberation movements of other Asian countries that were then under oppression.The mainstream schools of Asian ideological trend in China and Japan have their own important features, Japan pursued an illegitimate hegemony in Asia, and China pursued to restore legitimate national rights. Therefore, the mainstream schools of the Asian ideological trend have far-reaching effects, while it led to its militarist expansion in culmination of madness in Japan, pushing the country into abyss of war for the militarization of the country, sothat Japan was extricated itself; in China this inspired the magnificent national revolutionary movement in China, finally achieved the independence and liberation of the Chinese nation. The main causes for such a significant difference between the mainstream schools of Asian ideological trend existed in China and Japan were that the two countries have different national history and culture, the country’s overall strength, the real national circumstances.Any of social thought is the concentrated reflection of the major contradictions of the society. For the Asian ideological trend thinking about the Asian ideological trend, it has the different development and change under different social backgrounds between China and Japan. Japan’s mainstream school of Asian ideological trend started from "developing Asia" and ended for "Asian invasion", China’s mainstream school of the Asian ideological trend is always the theoretical weapon used to guide the Chinese people to fight against aggression to restore the national rights, which is the largest difference of value orientation of the two mainstream schools of the Asian ideological trend between China and Japan.Through the examination of the mainstream school of Asian ideological trend in China and Japan, the Asianism concept can be understood correctly:no matter what kind of the state system and national development model adopted by the countries in Eastern Asia, they have only insisted on respecting for equality among nations and the friendly cooperation, achieving mutual benefit and bilateral win-win or multilateral benefit universally, which are the rational choice of really reaching a realm of "Nihon harmony", and the only way for really reaching a realm of "common prosperity in Eastern Asia".