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Title Page
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Table of Contents
Prologue
ONE: ASIA SUBORDINATED
EGYPT: ‘THE BEGINNING OF A SERIES OF GREAT MISFORTUNES’
THE SLOW BATTERING OF INDIA AND CHINA
THE NEW GLOBAL HIERARCHY
TWO: THE STRANGE ODYSSEY OF JAMAL AL-DIN AL-AFGHANI
AN INSIGNIFICANT MAN IN ROUGH GARMENTS
THE ‘SICK MAN’ OF EUROPE AND HIS DANGEROUS SELF-THERAPY
EGYPT: THE POLEMICIST EMERGES
BEYOND SELF-STRENGTHENING: THE ORIGINS OF PAN-ISLAMISM AND NATIONALISM
THE EUROPEAN INTERLUDE
APOTHEOSIS IN PERSIA
IN A GOLDEN CAGE: AL-AFGHANI’S LAST DAYS IN ISTANBUL
THE LONG AFTERMATH
THREE: LIANG QICHAO’S CHINA AND THE FATE OF ASIA
THE ENVIABLE BUT INIMITABLE RISE OF JAPAN
THE FIRST IMPULSES OF REFORM
JAPAN AND THE PERILS OF EXILE
THE BOXER RISING: MORE LESSONS FROM DEFEAT
PAN-ASIANISM: THE PLEASURES OF COSMOPOLITANISM
LIANG AND DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
THE TEMPTATIONS OF AUTOCRACY AND REVOLUTION
FOUR: 1919, ‘CHANGING THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD’
THE UNITED STATES AND ITS PROMISES OF SELF-DETERMINATION
LIBERAL INTERNATIONALISM OR LIBERAL IMPERIALISM?
MAKING THE WORLD UNSAFE FOR DEMOCRACY
THE DECLINE OF THE WEST?
FIVE: RABINDRANATH TAGORE IN EAST ASIA, THE MAN FROM THE LOST COUNTRY
SIX: ASIA REMADE
THE STING IN THE TAIL: PAN-ASIANISM AND MILITARY DECOLONIZATION
INTELLECTUAL DECOLONIZATION: THE RISE OF NEO-TRADITIONALISTS
THE TRIUMPHS OF THE NATION-STATE: TURKEY, THE SICK MAN, REVIVES
‘THE CHINESE PEOPLE HAVE STOOD UP’
THE RISE OF THE ‘REST’
Epilogue: An Ambiguous Revenge
A Note on Names and Places
ALSO BY PANKAJ MISHRA
Bibliographic Essay
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
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