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Front cover images: Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt (top photo) and Zhou Enlai of China (bottom photo) walking to the conference hall in Bandung, Indonesia, April 1955. Reprinted courtesy of the Museum of the Asian-African Conference.
Some of the chapters published in this book have appeared elsewhere and are reprinted with permission:
Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Legacies of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics of Culture,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 40, No. 46, 12 November 2005.
Michael Adas, “Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault
on the Civilizing Mission Ideology,” Journal of World History, Vol. 15, No. 1 (2004): 31–63.
Denis M. Tull, “China’s Engagement in Africa: Scope, Significance and Consequences,”
Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2006): 459–479.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lee, Christopher J.
Making a world after empire : the Bandung moment and its political afterlives / Christopher J. Lee.
p. cm. — (Ohio University research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no 11)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-89680-277-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-89680-468-5 (electronic) 1. Asian-African Conference (1st : 1955 : Bandung, Indonesia) 2. Asian-African Conference (1st : 1955 : Bandung, Indonesia)—Influence. 3. Afro-Asian politics. 4. Asia—Relations—Africa. 5. Africa—Relations—Asia. 6. Imperialism—History—20th century. 7. Decolonization—Asia—History—20th century. 8. Decolonization—Africa—History—20th century. I. Title.
DS35.2.L44 2010
327.1’16—dc22 2009053610