Half title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Chapter One -- Introduction; Chapter Two -- "The Empire of Righteousness": Anagarika Dharmapala and His Vision of Buddhist Asianism (c. 1900); Chapter Three -- Compass Points: Four Indian Cartographies of Asia, c. 1930-55; Chapter Four -- Uniting the East via Western Amateur Sports Values: Asian Integration, the Olympic Ideal and the Far Eastern Championship Games; Chapter Five -- Missiology and Pan-Asia; Chapter Six -- "America's Asia?" Revolution, Scholarship and Asian Studies

Chapter Seven -- Asianisms from Below: Japanese Civil Society and Visions of Asian Integration from the Late 20th to the 21st CenturyChapter Eight -- Coming to Terms with Asianism: Historical Reconciliation and Asianist History Politics in Contemporary China and Japan; Chapter Nine -- Asia as Future: The Claims and Rhetoric of an Asian Century; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index

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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 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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