Routledge has just published a book edited by Shaun O’Dwyer, Confucianism at War: 1931-1945. The book brings together original research by East Asian and European scholars – some of it published for the first time in English – which demonstrates that Confucianism was “a potent and also contested cultural resource for promoting national cohesion, war mobilization, and expansionism in East Asia between the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and the end of World War II in 1945.” More information on the book can be found here. Thanks to Dongxian Jiang (Fordham) for the pointer.
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