Yuka Hiruma Kishida is Assistant Professor of History at Bridgewater College, USA.

[The] book goes beyond the institutional history of Kenkoku University: the microhistory approach offers fresh insights into the historiography of the relationship and tensions between the universalism of Pan-Asianist idealism and the particularism and power hegemony created by notions of Japanese privilege and supremacy within the imperial context … Hiruma Kishida’s book is an example of the sophistication and maturity in the historiography of Japanese imperialism and Pan-Asianism.

• 1. Introduction2. Dreaming Big About Pan-Asianist Education: From ‘Asia University’ to ‘Kenkoku (Nation-Building) University’3. Exploring the Meanings of Pan-Asia: Japanese Students’ Experiences at Kenkoku University 4. Calling Asia a New Home: Korean and Taiwanese Students’ Experiences at Kenkoku University 5. Learning to Become ‘Chinese’ at a Japanese School: Chinese Students’ Experiences at Kenkoku University 6. Building a Utopia Together: Kenkoku, a Juku Periodical, as a Window into Kenkoku University’s Institutional Practice of Pan-Asianism 7. Epilogue Notes BibliographyIndex

Yuka Hiruma Kishida is Assistant Professor of History at Bridgewater College, USA.

[The] book goes beyond the institutional history of Kenkoku University: the microhistory approach offers fresh insights into the historiography of the relationship and tensions between the universalism of Pan-Asianist idealism and the particularism and power hegemony created by notions of Japanese privilege and supremacy within the imperial context … Hiruma Kishida’s book is an example of the sophistication and maturity in the historiography of Japanese imperialism and Pan-Asianism.

• 1. Introduction2. Dreaming Big About Pan-Asianist Education: From ‘Asia University’ to ‘Kenkoku (Nation-Building) University’3. Exploring the Meanings of Pan-Asia: Japanese Students’ Experiences at Kenkoku University 4. Calling Asia a New Home: Korean and Taiwanese Students’ Experiences at Kenkoku University 5. Learning to Become ‘Chinese’ at a Japanese School: Chinese Students’ Experiences at Kenkoku University 6. Building a Utopia Together: Kenkoku, a Juku Periodical, as a Window into Kenkoku University’s Institutional Practice of Pan-Asianism 7. Epilogue Notes BibliographyIndex

Yuka Hiruma Kishida is Assistant Professor of History at Bridgewater College, USA.

[The] book goes beyond the institutional history of Kenkoku University: the microhistory approach offers fresh insights into the historiography of the relationship and tensions between the universalism of Pan-Asianist idealism and the particularism and power hegemony created by notions of Japanese privilege and supremacy within the imperial context … Hiruma Kishida’s book is an example of the sophistication and maturity in the historiography of Japanese imperialism and Pan-Asianism.

• 1. Introduction2. Dreaming Big About Pan-Asianist Education: From ‘Asia University’ to ‘Kenkoku (Nation-Building) University’3. Exploring the Meanings of Pan-Asia: Japanese Students’ Experiences at Kenkoku University 4. Calling Asia a New Home: Korean and Taiwanese Students’ Experiences at Kenkoku University 5. Learning to Become ‘Chinese’ at a Japanese School: Chinese Students’ Experiences at Kenkoku University 6. Building a Utopia Together: Kenkoku, a Juku Periodical, as a Window into Kenkoku University’s Institutional Practice of Pan-Asianism 7. Epilogue Notes BibliographyIndex