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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Acharya, Amitav,; Andaya, Barbara Watson,; Bose, Sugata,; Duara, Prasenjit,; Hui, Wang,; Mrázek, Rudolf,; Munger, Jennifer,; Sen, Tansen,
• HerausgeberIn: Duara, Prasenjit,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (106 p.)
• 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
• 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.

"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