The politics of anti-Westernism in Asia
Subtitle: visions of world order in pan-Islamic and pan-Asian thought
By: Cemil Aydin.
Series: Columbia studies in international and global history
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780231137782
Subjects: Panislamism; International cooperation; Asia -- Politics and government
Description: "In this intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals, Aydin demonstrates that modern anti-Western discourse grew out of the legitimacy crisis of a single, Eurocentric global polity in the age of high imperialism."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: The universal West: Europe beyond its Christian and white race identity (1840-1882); title: The great rupture: Ottoman imagination of a European model; title: Ottoman westernism and the European international society; title: A non-Christian Europe?; title: The West in early Japanese reformist thought; title: The modern genesis of pan-Islamic and pan-Asian ideas; title: Conclusion; title: The two faces of the West: imperialism versus enlightenment (1882-1905); title: The Muslim world as an inferior Semitic race: Ernest Renan and his Muslim critics; title: Yellow versus white peril? pan-Asian critiques and conceptions of world order; title: Crescent versus cross? pan-Islamic reflections on the "clash of civilizations" thesis; title: Conclusion; title: The global moment of the Russo-Japanese war: the awakening of the East/equality with the West (1905-1912); title: An alternative to the West? Asian observations on the Japanese model; title: Defining an anti-Western internationalism: pan-Islamic and pan-Asian visions of solidarity; title: Japanese pan-Asianism after the Russo-Japanese war; title: Conclusion; title: The impact of WWI on pan-Islamic and pan-Asianist visions of world order; title: Pan-Islamism and the Ottoman state; title: The realist pan-Islamism of Celal Nuri and Ismail Naci Pelister; title: Pan-islamic mobilization during WWI; title: The transformation of pan-Asianism during WWI: nationalists, and Asiaphile European romantics; title: Asia as a site of national liberation; title: Asia as the hope of humanity; title: Conclusion; title: The triumph of nationalism? the ebbing of pan-Islamic and pan-Asian visions of world order; title: During the 1920s; title: The Wilsonian moment and pan-Islamism; title: The Wilsonian moment and pan-Asianism; title: Pan-Islamic and pan-Asianist perceptions of socialist internationalism; title: "Clash of civilizations" in the age of nationalism; title: The weakness of pan-Islamic and pan-Asianist political projects during the 1920s; title: Conclusion; title: The revival of a pan-Asianist vision of world order in Japan (1931-1945); title: Explaining Japan's official "return to Asia"; title: Withdrawal from the League of Nations as a turning point; title: Asianist journals and organizations; title: Asianist ideology of the 1930s; title: Wartime Asian internationalism and its postwar legacy; title: Conclusion; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.