... grip of exceptionalism, it can only be eradicated by transcending binaries using deconstruction. Buddhism Shinto sonnō jō’i Tokugawa Nariaki China Ii Naosuke Kumazawa Banzan Kyoto Mandate of Heaven Sages superiority Yamaga Sokō Yamazaki Ansai Christianity nationalism Song dynasty Wang...

..., this chapter explicates historians' deconstruction of the master narrative that had shaped revolutionary historiography and their new interpretations of a series of empirical issues that contributed to the formation of modernization historiography. reputation of Dirlik Arif Maoism modernization New...