From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia

Oct 2, 2012

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Pankaj Mishra explores the little-known history of the first generation of Asian intellectuals, such as China's Liang Qichao and the Persian political activist al-Afghani, and discusses how their ideas influenced Asia's postcolonial state-building programs.

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