Recentring Asia : histories, encounters, identities

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Recentring Asia : histories, encounters, identities

Title remainder

histories, encounters, identities

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jacob Edmond, Henry Johnson & Jacqueline Leckie

Creator

• Edmond, Jacob

Contributor

• Leckie, Jacqueline
• Johnson, Henry

Editor

• Edmond, Jacob
• Johnson, Henry
• Leckie, Jacqueline

Subject

• Asia -- Civilization
• Asia -- History
• Ethnology -- Asia

Language

eng

Summary

"These essays argue that recentring Asia necessitates a revision not only of notions of Asia but also of the centre itself. On the one hand, recentring Asia asserts the centrality of Asia, especially overlooked Asian histories, encounters and identities, to world history, culture and geopolitics. On the other hand, the concept of recentring provides a way to address and rethink the concept of the centre, a term critical to Asian Studies, area studies and, more broadly, to the study of globalization, postcolonialism, diaspora, modernism and modernity. Drawing on new approaches in these fields, Recentring Asia forces the reader to rethink the centre not as a single site towards which all is oriented, but as a zone of encounter, exchange and contestation."--Publisher's description

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NIC/DLC

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography