Asianisms: Regionalist Interactions and Asian Integration Tapa blanda - 2016

Paperback / softback. New. At the core of this book is a seemingly simple question: What is Asia? In search of common historical roots, traditions and visions of political-cultural integration, first Japanese, then Chinese, Korean and Indian intellectuals, politicians and writers understood Asianisms as an umbrella for all conceptions, imaginations and processes which emphasized commonalities or common interests among different Asian regions and nations. This book investigates the multifarious discursive and material constructions of Asia within the region and in the West. It reconstructs regional constellations, intersections and relations in their national, transnational and global contexts. Moving far beyond the more well-known Japanese Pan-Asianism of the first half of the twentieth century, the chapters investigate visions of Asia that have sought to provide common meanings and political projects in efforts to trace, and construct, Asia as a united and common space of interaction. By tracing… Leer más

Nus Pr, 2016. Paperback. New. 282 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches.

Singapore: NUS Press.. 2016. 270pp, paperback. At the core of this book is a seemingly simple question: What is Asia? In search of common historical roots, traditions and visions of political-cultural integration, first Japanese, then Chinese, Korean and Indian intellectuals, politicians and writers understood Asianisms as an umbrella for all conceptions, imaginations and processes which emphasized commonalities or common interests among different Asian regions and nations. This book investigates the multifarious discursive and material constructions of Asia within the region and in the West. It reconstructs regional constellations, intersections and relations in their national, transnational and global contexts. Moving far beyond the more well-known Japanese Pan-Asianism of the first half of the twentieth century, the chapters investigate visions of Asia that have sought to provide common meanings and political projects in efforts to trace, and construct, Asia as a united and common space of… Leer más

Singapore: NUS Press, 2016. Paperback. New. In this book a group of academics, specialising in Asian studies, seek to answer the question - what is Asia? They look at the construct from many different angles including that of the Buddhist preacher Angarika Dharmapala, 20th century Indian cartographers, sportsmen and women, missionaries, the United States, and Japanese Civil Society. In the final paper one of the editors looks to the Asia of the future, examining the rhetoric and claims of the dawning of the Asian century. 282 pages with a bibliography and index. Weight: 0.6kg. Post free within Malaysia