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Autore |
Frey Marc |
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Titolo |
Asianisms : Regionalist Interactions and Asian Integration / / edited by Marc Frey & Nicola Spakowski |
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Singapore, : NUS Press, 2015 |
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Singapore : , : NUS Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 282 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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National characteristics, Asian |
Regionalism - Asia |
Asia History |
Asia Historiography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographic references (pages 237-267) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The empire of righteousness, Anagarika Dharmapala and his vision of Buddhist Asianism (c. 1900) / Maria Moritz -- Compass points, four Indian cartographies of Asia, c. 1930-55 / Carolien Stolte -- Uniting the East via western amateur sports values, Asian integration, the olympic ideal and the Far Eastern championship games / Stefan Hubner -- Missiology and Pan-Asia / Tani Barlow -- America's Asia? revolution, scholarship and Asian studies / Fabio Lanza -- Asianisms from below, Japanese civil society and visions of Asian integration from the late 20th to the 21st century / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Coming to terms with Asianism, historical reconciliation and Asianist history politics in contemporary China and Japan / Torsten Weber -- Asia as future, the claims rhetoric of an Asian century / Nicola Spakowski. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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At the core of this book is a seemingly simple question: What is Asia? the answer involves an investigation of 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 |
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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 the imagination of civil society actors throughout Asia, the volume leaves behind state-centered approaches to regional integration and uncovers the richness and depth of complex identities within a large and culturally heterogeneous space. |
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