The Limits of Westernization, Part V (History Lens)
Channel: ThinkTech Hawaii
Date: 2019-01-09

East Asian Modernity after WWII.  Postwar intellectuals in East Asia struggled to  understand why modernity had failed so terribly in WWII especially in Japan. Two arguments emerged, state-initiated external coercion vs inner cooptation. In China, intellectuals were brutalized during the WWII and reeducated afterward by the CCP, forced to recent western liberal leanings.

The hosts for this episode are Jay Fidell and Jon Davidann.

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