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Asia Redux : Conceptualizing a Region for Our Times / ed. by Prasenjit Duara.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (106 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789814414494
  • 9789814414517
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 950 23
LOC classification:
  • DS33
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Asia Redux: Conceptualizing a Region for Our Times -- The Idea of Asia and Its Ambiguities -- The Intricacies of Premodern Asian Connections -- Asia Is Not One -- Response to Prasenjit Duara, “Asia Redux” -- floating. No Gears Shifting -- Response to Comments on “Asia Redux” -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: "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
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Asia Redux: Conceptualizing a Region for Our Times -- The Idea of Asia and Its Ambiguities -- The Intricacies of Premodern Asian Connections -- Asia Is Not One -- Response to Prasenjit Duara, “Asia Redux” -- floating. No Gears Shifting -- Response to Comments on “Asia Redux” -- Contributors -- Index

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"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

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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