ABSTRACT
In the past few decades, scholars have criticized Eurocentrism and searched for Asian identity, they have rediscovered the work of Takeuchi Yoshimi. In the cases of Takeuchi and Wang Hui, the critique of modernization theory and by extension orthodox Marxism is connected to a re-evaluation of the Chinese Revolution, which serves to inspire thinking about alternative futures. During the early postwar period in Japan, the Chinese Revolution and the idea of Asia were intimately connected with the possibility of a different future viewed in Marxist terms, namely a socialist future. Some Japanese intellectuals continued to adhere to the idea of Asian unity after the Chinese Revolution and into the 1950s and 1960s. Using Mao's idea of the Revolutionary Base Area, Takeuchi brings together ideas of the local and the global. In many cases, Neo-liberals would advocate a break from both the Chinese Confucian past and the revolutionary past, since both were opposed to the development of liberalism, freedom and democracy.
