From the Ruins of Empire The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia

Name: From the Ruins of Empire The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
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ISBN: 9780374249595

ISBN-10: 0374249598

ISBN-13: 9780374249595

Edition: 2012

Authors: Pankaj Mishra

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A surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world A little more than a century ago, as the Japanese navy annihilated the giant Russian one at the Battle of Tsushima, original thinkers across Asia, working independently, sought to frame a distinctly Asian intellectual tradition that would inform and inspire the continent’s anticipated rise to dominance. Asian dominance did not come to pass, and those thinkers—Tagore, Gandhi, and later Nehru in India; Liang Qichao and Sun Yatsen in China; Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Abdurreshi al Ibrahim in the ruins of the Ottoman Empire—are seen as outriders from the main…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/4/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Pankaj Mishra is currently editing an anthology of contemporary Indian writers. He divides his time between New Delhi & Simla.



A Note on Names and Places


Prologue



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'


Epilogue: An Ambiguous Revenge


Bibliographic Essay


Notes


Acknowledgements


Index