小寺谦吉“大亚细亚主义”思想考辨

Discussion on Kodera Kenkichi's Thought of“Greater Asianism”

一战前后,小寺谦吉的“大亚细亚主义”代表着日本亚洲主义的新发展,他以“人种论”为立论基础,对当时中国现状进行批判,最终提出“中国保全改造论”。然而,经过史料核查与对比,便可发现小寺谦吉对近代东亚国际形势的观察、中国现状的论断、中国未来的判断均存在立论依据错误的问题,如夸大黄白人种的对立、忽视中国历史的进步性、刻意放大中国的个别社会问题等,他的“大亚细亚主义”不是真正的亚洲同盟论,而是打着“保全”和“改造”的幌子,对中国进行分割、吞并,其本质是帝国主义和殖民主义。

During the World War I,Kodera Kenkichi's"Greater Asianism"represented a new development of Asianism in Japan,and he criticized the current situation in China at that time based on the"theory of ethnography",and finally put forward the"theory of China's preservation and transformation".However,after verifying and comparing historical materials,it can be found that Kodera Kenkichi's observation of the international situation in modern East Asia as well as his judgment on China's current and future situation,have the problem of wrong basis for arguments,such as exaggerating the antagonism between the yellow and white races,ignoring the progressive nature of China's history,and deliberately magnifying China's individual social problems.His"Greater Asianism"is not a true Asian alliance theory,but a division and annexation of China under the guise of"preservation"and"transformation",and its essence is imperialism and colonialism.