Date Thesis Awarded

4-2019

Access Type

Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only

Degree Name

Bachelors of Arts (BA)

Department

History

Advisor

Eric Han

Committee Members

Tomoyuki Sasaki

Joshua Hubbard

Abstract

This thesis on pre-modern Japan’s intellectual history argues for the existence of a proto-nationalism in Japan since the seventeenth century, meanwhile Japanese Confucianism, as both affirmative and contrapuntal instrument, served a necessary function in constituting and facilitating the development of such proto-nationalism.

Recommended Citation

Ling, Zhengyuan, "Pre-Modern Japanese Proto-nationalism: A Study of Japanese Confucianism’s Intellectual History" (2019). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 1333.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/1333