Asia Redux : : Conceptualizing a Region for Our Times / / ed. by Prasenjit Duara.
"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 w...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (106 p.) |
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Other title: | 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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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 |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9789814414517 9783110649772 9783111024707 9783110663006 9783110606683 |
DOI: | 10.1355/9789814414517 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Prasenjit Duara. |