| 摘要(外文): | This study examines the meaning of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Pan-Asianism and analyzes the PRC's policy toward East Asia in the post-Cold War era. Dr. Sun's Pan-Asianism lecture in 1924 has two implications; first, he hopes Japan would not pursue the hard power policy, which was put into practice by western countries. Second, he provides strategies to revitalize Asia. He hopes that China and Japan unite the Asian countries hand in hand, implement "Kingly culture" and policy, and oppose the western imperialism together.
This study argues that Dr. Sun's "Kingly culture" concept is very similar to the soft power concept advocated by Joseph Nye. This analysis draws upon the soft power concept to re-intepretate the modern meanings of the Pan-Asianism. After examining the PRC's foreign, economic and trade policy toward East Asia in the post-Cold War era, this article finds that China adopts the soft power policy toward East Asia. However, it does not mean that China follow the "Kingly culture" policy line. In fact, there is a very large gap between the practice of the PRC's foreign policy and Dr. Sun's "Kingly culture" policy initiatives.
In general, this study finds that the "Kingly culture" concept proposed by Dr. Sun is highly similar to the soft power concept proposed by Joseph Nye academically. This study also finds that the soft power policy adopted by the PRC as a very useful tool to achieve its strategic goal. These two findings prove Dr. Sun Yat-sen foresight in analyzing problems and providing solutions.
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