Bullettin n. 1/2011 | ||
June 2011 | ||
Prasenjit Duara |
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Asia Redux: Conceptualizing a Region for Our Times | ||
in Journal of Asian Studies (The) , Volume 69, Issue 04 , 2010 , 963-983 | ||
How has Asia appeared as a region and been conceived as such in the last hundred years? While there is a long-standing and still burgeoning historiography of Asian connections through the study of the precolonial and early modern maritime trade, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are generally not seen as a time of growing Asian connections. The recent rise of interest in Asian connections in the current time is thus unable to grasp the continuities and discontinuities that form the present. Even more, it is unable to evaluate the risks and possibilities of the present moment. | ||