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From the ruins of empire : the revolt against the West and the remaking of Asia
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From the ruins of empire : the revolt against the West and the remaking of Asia / Pankaj Mishra.
ISBN
9781250037718 (pbk.)
1250037719 (pbk.)
Publication
New York : Picador : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2012]
Copyright Notice Date
©2012.
Physical Description
xi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Summary
A little more than a century ago, independent thinkers across Asia sought to frame a distinct intellectual tradition that would inspire the continent's rise to dominance. Yet this did not come to pass, and today those thinkers-Tagore, Gandhi, and later Nehru in India; Liang Qichao and Sun Yat-sen in China; Jama; al-Din al-Afghani and Abdurreshi al Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire - are seen as outsiders within the main anticolonial tradition. But as Pankaj Mishra demonstrates in this enthralling portrait of like minds, Asia's revolt against the West is not one led by faith fired terrorists and thwarted peasants; rather, it is rooted in the ideas of these once renowned intellectuals. Now, when the ascendency of Asia seems possible as never before,this book is as necessary as it is timely - a book indispensable to our understanding of the world and our place in it.
Variant and related titles
Revolt against the West and the remaking of Asia.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 17, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-340) and index.
Contents
Asia subordinated
Egypt : 'the beginning of a series of great misfortunes' ; The slow battering of India and China ; The new global hierarchy
The strange odyssey of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
An insignificant man in rough garments ; The 'sick man' of Europe and his dangerous self-therapy ; Egypt : the polemicist emerges ; Beyond self-strengthening : the origins of pan-Islamism and nationalism ; The European interlude ; Apotheosis in Persia ; In a golden cage : al-Afghani's last days in Istanbul ; The long aftermath
Liang Qichao's China and the fate of Asia
The enviable but inimitable rise of Japan ; The first impulses of reform ; Japan and the perils of exile ; The Boxer Rising : more lessons from defeat ; Pan-Asianism : the pleasures of cosmopolitanism ; Liang and democracy in America ; The temptations of autocracy and revolution
1919, 'changing the history of the world'
The United States and its promises of self-determination ; Liberal internationalism or liberal imperialism? ; Making the world unsafe for democracy ; The decline of the West?
Rabindranath Tagore in East Asia, the man from the lost country
Asia remade
The sting in the tail : pan-Asianism and military decolonization ; Intellectual decolonization : the rise of neo-traditionalists ; The triumphs of the nation-state : Turkey, the sick man, revives ; 'The Chinese people have stood up' ; The rise of the 'rest'
An ambiguous revenge.
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