TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barr,Michael D.
AU  - Guha,Ramachandra
AU  - Jian,Chen
AU  - Mitter,Rana
AU  - Quinn-Judge,Sophie
AU  - Raghavan,Srinath
AU  - Rush,James R.
AU  - Shaikh,Farzana
AU  - Taylor,Jay
AU  - Westad,Odd Arne
TI  - Makers of Modern Asia
SN  - 9780674365414
U1  - 950.420922 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Politicians
KW  - Asia
KW  - Biography
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Introduction --; One. Gandhi, India, and the World --; Two. Chiang Kai- Shek and Chinese Modernization --; Three. Ho Chi Minh --; Four. Mao Zedong and Charismatic Maoism --; Five. Jawaharlal Nehru --; Six. Zhou Enlai and China's "Prolonged Rise" --; Seven. Sukarno Anticipating an Asian Century --; Eight. Deng Xiaoping and the China He Made --; Nine. Indira Gandhi --; Ten. Singapore'S Lee Kuan Yew --; Eleven. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto --; Notes. Acknowledgments. Notes On Contributors. Credits. Index --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Notes on Contributors --; Credits --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Hardly more than a decade old, the twenty-first century has already been dubbed the Asian Century in recognition of China and India's increasing importance in world affairs. Yet discussions of Asia seem fixated on economic indicators-gross national product, per capita income, share of global trade. Makers of Modern Asia reorients our understanding of contemporary Asia by highlighting the political leaders, not billionaire businessmen, who helped launch the Asian Century. The nationalists who crafted modern Asia were as much thinkers as activists, men and women who theorized and organized anticolonial movements, strategized and directed military campaigns, and designed and implemented political systems. The eleven thinker-politicians whose portraits are presented here were a mix of communists, capitalists, liberals, authoritarians, and proto-theocrats-a group as diverse as the countries they represent. From China, the world's most populous country, come four: Mao Zedong, leader of the Communist Revolution; Zhou Enlai, his close confidant; Deng Xiaoping, purged by Mao but rehabilitated to play a critical role in Chinese politics in later years; and Chiang Kai-shek, whose Kuomintang party formed the basis of modern Taiwan. From India, the world's largest democracy, come three: Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Indira Gandhi, all of whom played crucial roles in guiding India toward independence and prosperity. Other exemplary nationalists include Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh, Indonesia's Sukarno, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, and Pakistan's Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. With contributions from leading scholars, Makers of Modern Asia illuminates the intellectual and ideological foundations of Asia's spectacular rise to global prominence
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