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Makers of modern Asia / edited by Ramachandra Guha.
- Title
- Makers of modern Asia / edited by Ramachandra Guha.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
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- Guha, Ramachandra
- Description
- 385 pages; 24 cm
- 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 organized anticolonial movements, strategized and directed military campaigns, and designed and implemented political systems. The eleven thinker-politicians whose portraits are presented here were a mix of communists, capitalists, liberals, authoritarians, and proto-theocrats{u2014}a group as diverse as the countries they represent.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: the politics behind the economics of Asia's rise / Ramachandra Guha -- Gandhi, India, and the world / Ramachandra Guha -- Chiang Kai-shek and Chinese modernization / Jay Taylor -- Ho Chi Minh: nationalist icon / Sophie Quinn-Judge -- Mao Zedong and charismatic Maoism / Rana Mitter -- Jawaharlal Nehru: a romantic in politics / Ramachandra Guha -- Zhou Enlai and China's "prolonged rise" / Chen Jian -- Sukarno: anticipating an Asian century / James R. Rush -- Deng Xiaoping and the China he made / Odd Arne Westad -- Indira Gandhi: India and the world in transition / Srinath Raghavan -- Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew: traveling light, traveling fast / Michael D. Barr -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: in pursuit of an Asian Pakistan / Farzana Shaikh.
- ISBN
- 9780674365414 (alk. paper)
- 0674365410 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2014006043
- OCLC
- 876010349
- SCSB-12770486
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library