The fractured transnational lens: motives, representations and historiographies in Deguchi Onisaburō’s 1924 Mongolian expedition

Rapley, Ian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8439-1253 2018. The fractured transnational lens: motives, representations and historiographies in Deguchi Onisaburō’s 1924 Mongolian expedition. Journal of Northeast Asian History 15 (1)

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Abstract

In 1924, Deguchi Onisaburō, head of the Japanese religion, Ōmoto, skipped bail to flee to Manchuria, where he joined a Mongolian bandit by the name of Lu Zhankui on an armed expedition into Inner Mongolia. However, the mission ended in collapse, with Lu shot and Deguchi sent back to Japan in shackles. The expedition is an example of practical Pan-Asianism. Because it has typically been studied as a political idea, an instance of Pan-Asianism on-the-ground offers new ways of studying the ideology. In particular the case shines a light on the “continental adventurers”, a critical group of Japanese active in Manchuria who were vital links in the “colonial realities” of Japan’s informal empire. The article adopts a transnational methodology, arguing that this offers a wider possibility for the study of Pan-Asianism: enabling the recognition of the tensions inherent within the ideology without seeking to reduce them to a “paradox”.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D890 Eastern Hemisphere D History General and Old World > DS Asia
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Transnational History Japan Pan-Asianism Ōmoto Mongolia Manchuria Japanese Empire
Publisher:	Northeast Asian History Foundation
ISSN:	1976-3735
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Date of First Compliant Deposit:	18 January 2019
Date of Acceptance:	20 December 2018
Last Modified:	13 Nov 2024 10:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/117843

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