Meaning of pan-Asianism | Babel Free

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An ideology aimed at creating a political and economic unity among Asian peoples.

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“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.”

“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.”

“Like pan-Africanism, pan-Asianism called for the solidarity of Asian peoples everywhere to counter the global dominance of the west.”

CEFR level