From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of AsiaDoubleday Canada, 2012 M09 4 - 400 páginas National Bestseller · Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize · Finalist for the Orwell Prize · A Guardian Book of the Year · A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice “Essential reading for everyone who is interested in the processes of change that have led to the emergence of today’s Asia.” —Amitav Ghosh, The Wall Street Journal The Victorian period, viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. As the British gunned down the last heirs to the Mughal Empire, burned down the Summer Palace in Beijing, or humiliated the bankrupt rulers of the Ottoman Empire, it was clear that for Asia to recover, a vast intellectual effort would be required. Mishra's fascinating book tells the story of a remarkable group of men from across the continent who met the challenge of the West. Incessantly travelling, questioning and agonizing, they both hated the West and recognised that an Asian renaissance needed to be fuelled in part by engagement with the enemy. Through many setbacks and wrong turns, a powerful, contradictory and ultimately unstoppable series of ideas were created that now lie behind everything from the Chinese Communist Party to Al Qaeda, from Indian nationalism to the Muslim Brotherhood. Mishra allows the reader to see the events of two centuries anew, through the eyes of the journalists, poets, radicals and charismatics who criss-crossed Europe and Asia and created the ideas which lie behind the powerful Asian nations of the twenty-first century. |
Contenido
The beginning of a series of great misfortunes | 23 |
The Slow Battering of India and China | 30 |
The New Global Hierarchy | |
The Strange Odyssey of Jamal alDin alAfghani | |
Liang Qichaos China and the Fate of Asia | |
1919 Changing the History of the World | |
Rabindranath Tagore in East Asia the Man from | |
PanAsianism and Military Decolonization | |
The Rise of NeoTraditionalists | |
Turkey the Sick Man Revives | |
The Chinese People have stood up | |
The Rise of the Rest | |
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From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia Pankaj Mishra Sin vista previa disponible - 2012 |
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia Pankaj Mishra Sin vista previa disponible - 2012 |
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia Pankaj Mishra Sin vista previa disponible - 2012 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abduh activists Afghani Afghanistan al-Afghani Ali Shariati American Arab Asia Asian Atatürk became Beijing Britain British Cairo China Chinese civilization claimed colonial Communist Confucian cultural decades Delhi democracy despotism East economic Egypt Egyptian elites emperor English Europe Europe's European powers exile forced foreign French Gandhi global humiliation Ibid ideas ideologies imperialism imperialist India Indian Muslims intellectual Iqbal Iran Iranian Islam Islamist Istanbul Jamal Jamal al-din al-Afghani Japan Japanese Kang Youwei later leaders Liang Qichao liberal Mao Zedong mass military modern moral movement Mughal Muslim countries Muslim world Mutiny nation-state nationalist nineteenth century opium Ottoman Empire pan-Islamism Paris Persian political Qing Qutb Rabindranath Tagore radical reform religion Revolution revolutionary rule rulers Russia Sayyid secular seemed shah Shariati Shiite social society sultan Sun Yat-sen Tanzimat thinkers Tokutomi Soho tradition Turkey Turkish Turks turned twentieth century ulema West Western powers Western-style Wilson wrote young Young Ottoman