Hatred Has No Future

The year was 2002—the 30th anniversary of the normalization of Sino-Japanese relations but also a time when relations grew sharply frostier over the prime minister’s visit to Yasukuni Shrine. Into this fray dropped Ma Licheng’s “New Thinking on Relations with Japan”, triggering a storm of debate in both China and Japan. Even now, more than a decade after the essay’s publication, the New Thinking continues to have a major influence on policy discussions. While Sino-Japanese relations hit new turbulence over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands in 2012, the author remains optimistic that the bilateral issues can be resolved rationally and peacefully. Referencing the durability of the postwar peace between France and Germany, he argues that, for their own and the international community’s sake, China and Japan can and must find ways to overcome their antagonisms and live in peace as complementary neighbors.

Ma Licheng
Ma Licheng was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, in 1946. After serving in such posts as vice director of the editorial department at the China Youth Daily and editor in chief at the People’s Daily, he moved to Hong Kong’s Phoenix Television. A political commentator and scholar, he has been a University of Tokyo honorary member researcher, a visiting scholar at Singapore University, and a Hokkaido University specially appointed professor. He has had a long career researching and commenting on such subjects as China’s social transformation and nationalism and continues to be outspoken on both from his home in Beijing. Among his other publications is Leading Schools of Thought in Contemporary China, trans. by Jing L. Liu (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2015). In 2000, he was made an honorary citizen of El Paso, Texas, USA.

Oikawa Junko (Chinese-to-Japanese translator)
Oikawa Junko, PhD, associate professor in the Faculty of Letters at Chuo University, received her doctorate from the Nihon University Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies. Her primary research focus is on the intersection of the intelligentsia and public discourse in contemporary Chinese society. Among her publications is “China’s Social Divisions and the Search for a Common ‘Baseline’” (The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, 2016).

*information as of time of publication

JIIA series
Political Science

Publisher:
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture

Hardcover
¥2,500 + tax
ISBN 9784866581231
210 mm x 148 mm / 240 pp. / September 2020

eBook
ISBN 9784866582061 (ePub)
ISBN 9784866582122 (PDF)

CONTENTS
Preface to the English Edition
Introduction by the Japanese Translator
1. An Earth-Shaking Controversy
2. What Was My “New Thinking on Relations with Japan”?
3. The Inspiration behind the “New Thinking”: Deng Xiaoping, Hu Yaobang, and their Views of Japan
4. I am Not Alone on My Journey: He Fang, My Mentor
5. Emotions Must Not Be Allowed to Dictate Policy: Two Great Supporters of the New Thinking
6. Don’t Hide behind Patriotism: Was I Really Beaten Up in Hong Kong?
7. Is it Treason to Forgive Japan? The Ge Hongbing Controversy
8. Curbing Hot-Headedness with Reason: A Letter from Zhu Liang and an Article by Yuan Weishi
9. From “Breaking the Ice” to a “Warm Spring”: Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao Break the Impasse
10. How the March 11 Disaster Brought the Two Countries Closer
11. What Is the True Nature of the Unrest Prompted by the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Issue?
12. Will China and Japan Come to Blows?
13. Hatred Has No Future
Index

日中関係が悪化した2002年、著者は「対日関係新思考」を発表し、両国に大論争を巻き起こした。その後の中国国内での対日言論を評論し、和解実現のための指針として、新たに「中日関係新思考」を提起する。

馬 立誠（Ma Licheng）
1946年生まれ，中国四川省成都出身．『中国青年報』評論部副主任，『人民日報』評論部主任編集者（論説委員に相当），香港フェニックステレビ評論員を歴任．長年にわたり中国の社会変革やナショナリズムに関する研究と執筆に取り組み，現在は北京を拠点に言論活動を続けている．主要な著作は，『交鋒――当代中国三次思想解放実録』（共著／邦訳『交鋒――改革・開放をめぐる党内闘争の内幕』中央公論新社），『呼喊――当今中国的五種声音』（共著），『＜反日＞からの脱却』（中央公論新社），『謝罪を越えて――新しい中日関係に向けて』（文春文庫），『反日――中国は民族主義を越えられるか』（中公文庫），『歴史的拐点――中国歴朝改革変法実録』，『交鋒三〇年――改革開放四次大争論親歴記』，『当代中国八種社会思潮』（邦訳『中国を動かす八つの思潮――その論争とダイナミズム』科学出版社東京）ほか多数。

及川淳子
日本大学大学院総合社会情報研究科博士後期課程修了，博士（総合社会文化）。法政大学国際日本学研究所客員学術研究員，法政大学大学院中国基層政治研究所特任研究員，桜美林大学北東アジア総合研究所客員研究員，日本大学文理学部非常勤講師．専門は現代中国の社会，知識人，言論空間に関する研究．著書『現代中国の言論空間と政治文化――「李鋭ネットワーク」の形成と変容』（御茶の水書房）ほか。

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