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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Murthy’s book is a breathtaking achievement that combines in a true dialectical synthesis what Western intellectuals consider incompatible. This book is necessary reading for all who are interested in our future!” * Slavoj Žižek *
“Against the view of Asia’s rise as treading the path of the capitalist world, this book articulates powerful visions of pan-Asianism. Rethinking representative Asian and Western thinkers, Murthy illuminates how the imaginaries of Asian solidarity and alliances confronted imperialism and colonialism, and how traditional resources, the Chinese Revolution, and socialism were mobilized in projecting a future beyond capitalism.” * Ban Wang, Stanford University *
“Since the nineteenth century, the figure of pan-Asian civilization has been imprisoned in permanent standstill, devoid of subjectivity. Murthy brilliantly transforms our understanding by showing how lack was turned into fullness through the proposal that Asia both rescued its own past and provided a crucial supplement to what was missing in the West.” * Harry Harootunian, emeritus, University of Chicago *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Pan-Asianism in the Short Twentieth Century
Chapter One: Asia as Pharmakon: The Early Constitution of Asia as Resistance
Chapter Two: The Critique of Linear Time: Pan-Asianism in Early Twentieth-Century China
Chapter Three: Asia as Anticapitalist Utopia: Ōkawa Shūmei’s Critique of Political Modernity
Chapter Four: Takeuchi Yoshimi, Part I: Rethinking China as Political Subjectivity
Chapter Five: Takeuchi Yoshimi, Part II: Pan-Asianism, Revolutionary Nationalism, and War Memory
Chapter Six: Wang Hui: Contemporary Pan-Asianist in China?
Epilogue: Pan-Asianism, the Chinese Revolution, and Global Moments
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
