The politics of anti-Westernism in Asia : visions of world order in pan-Islamic and pan-Asian thought / Cemil Aydin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aydin, Cemil.

Series:

Columbia studies in international and global history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Panislamism.

Asia--Politics and government.

Asia.

Politics and government.

International cooperation.

Physical Description:

xi, 299 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2007]

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The universal West: Europe beyond its Christian and white race identity (1840-1882)

The great rupture: Ottoman imagination of a European model

Ottoman westernism and the European international society

A non-Christian Europe?

The West in early Japanese reformist thought

The modern genesis of pan-Islamic and pan-Asian ideas

Conclusion

The two faces of the West: imperialism versus enlightenment (1882-1905)

The Muslim world as an inferior Semitic race: Ernest Renan and his Muslim critics

Yellow versus white peril? pan-Asian critiques and conceptions of world order

Crescent versus cross? pan-Islamic reflections on the "clash of civilizations" thesis

The global moment of the Russo-Japanese war: the awakening of the East/equality with the West (1905-1912)

An alternative to the West? Asian observations on the Japanese model

Defining an anti-Western internationalism: pan-Islamic and pan-Asian visions of solidarity

Japanese pan-Asianism after the Russo-Japanese war

The impact of WWI on pan-Islamic and pan-Asianist visions of world order

Pan-Islamism and the Ottoman state

The realist pan-Islamism of Celal Nuri and İsmail Naci Pelister

Pan-Islamic mobilization during WWI

The transformation of pan-Asianism during WWI: Ôkawa Shûmei, Indian nationalists, and Asiaphile European romantics

Asia as a site of national liberation

Asia as the hope of humanity

The triumph of nationalism? the ebbing of pan-Islamic and pan-Asian visions of world order during the 1920s

The Wilsonian moment and pan-Islamism

The Wilsonian moment and pan-Asianism

Pan-Islamic and pan-Asianist perceptions of socialist internationalism

"Clash of civilizations" in the age of nationalism

The weakness of pan-Islamic and pan-Asianist political projects during the 1920s

The revival of a pan-Asianist vision of world order in Japan (1931-1945)

Explaining Japan's official "return to Asia"

Withdrawal from the League of Nations as a turning point

Asianist journals and organizations

Asianist ideology of the 1930s

Wartime Asian internationalism and its postwar legacy

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-281) and index.

ISBN:

9780231137782

0231137788

9780231510684

0231510683

OCLC:

78893423