Screen LibraryMakers of modern Asia /
Hardly more than a decade old, the twenty-first century has already been dubbed the Asian Century in recognition of China and India{u2019}s increasing importance in world affairs. Yet discussions of Asia seem fixated on economic indicators{u2014}gross national product, per capita income, share of gl...
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Hardly more than a decade old, the twenty-first century has already been dubbed the Asian Century in recognition of China and India{u2019}s increasing importance in world affairs. Yet discussions of Asia seem fixated on economic indicators{u2014}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 o |
| Carrier Form: | 385 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674365414 (alk. paper) : 0674365410 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | DS35 |
| CLC: | D830.2 |
| Call Number: | D830.2/M235 |
| Contents: |
Introduction: the politics behind the economics of Asia's rise / Gandhi, India, and the world / Chiang Kai-shek and Chinese modernization / Ho Chi Minh: nationalist icon / Mao Zedong and charismatic Maoism / Jawaharlal Nehru: a romantic in politics / Zhou Enlai and China's "prolonged rise" / Sukarno: anticipating an Asian century / Deng Xiaoping and the China he made / Indira Gandhi: India and the world in transition |