UID:
almafu_9960119301602883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 94 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
981-4414-51-4
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981-4414-49-2
Content:
In the erudite essay that opens this forum, Prasenjit Duara turns to both indigenous thinkers and the premodern past for tools with which to think about Asia in a global age. Contemporary modalities of regional exchange - 'weakly bounded, network-oriented, pluralistic, multitemporal' - chime with earlier patterns of cultural circulation without state domination, giving rise to a prophetic vision of 'Asia Redux'. This attempt to capture the contours of a (re)-emergent region was calculated to provide. And what a debate it kicks off. Wang Hui resolutely reframe imagining Asia as a political project on a world-historical canvas. Tansen Sen greatly complicates the map of intra-Asian commercial exchange in earlier times; Amitav Acharya outlines five competing conceptions of Asia in the domain of international relations alone.; Barbara Watson Andaya teases out the paradoxical way in which regional religions make clashing claims about Asian unity; and Rudolf Mrazek asks, what of the Asia that bleeds? what of exploitation and its spawn, the inglorious 'built-ends' of the global economy? The reward for those who read this collection straight through is a thrillingly cacophonous conversation about how to grasp Asia in our time.' - Karen E. Wigen, Stanford University 'Will a re-emergent Asia extend the violent rivalries and inequalities of Western-dominated empires, nations and capital? Or can Asia somehow draw on a relatively more peaceful past of maritime trade, interlinked religions and circulations beyond states to think and make a very different sort of region and world? Prasenjit Duara and his interlocutors define this vital debate on Asia's future through illuminating reflections on its recent and deep past. A touchstone for anyone concerned with a future shape of an inter-connected Asia newly possessed of wealth and power' - Engseng Ho, Duke University
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2015).
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface /
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Introduction /
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Asia Redux: Conceptualizing a Region for Our Times /
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The Idea of Asia and Its Ambiguities /
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The Intricacies of Premodern Asian Connections /
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Asia Is Not One /
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Response to Prasenjit Duara, "Asia Redux" /
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floating. No Gears Shifting /
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Response to Comments on "Asia Redux" /
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1355/9789814414517
URL:
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http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9789814414517/type/BOOK
