From the Ruins of Empire

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by Pankaj Mishra


  and post-war Asia

  Qutb’s criticisms of

  Septemberattacks

  war on terror

  Urabi, Ahmad (Colonel)

  Vauquelin, Ernest

  Victoria, Queen

  Vietnam

  in First World War

  French invasion of

  nationalists

  post-Second World War

  Vietnam War

  virtual communities

  Vivekananda, Swami

  Wahhabi Islam

  Wahid, Abdurrahman

  Wajid Ali Shah, king of Awadh

  war on terror

  Wei Yuan

  Weil, Simone

  Wilson, Woodrow

  Xiwu Bao (newspaper)

  Xu Zhimo

  Yan Fu

  China’s humiliations

  China’s survival as nation

  Confucianism

  Western experience

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Yonejiro Noguchi

  Young Ottomans

  Yuan Shikai

  Zaghlul, Saad

  al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab

  al-Zawahiri, Ayman

  Zhang Junmai

  Zhang Taiyan

  Zhou Enlai

  Zhou Shuren see Lu Xun

  Zhou Zuoren

  Zia-ul-Haq, Muhammad

  Ziya Pasha

  Zou Rong

  Copyright © 2012 by Pankaj Mishra

  All rights reserved

  Originally published in 2012 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain, as From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia

  Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

  www.fsgbooks.com

  ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

  Pages 11 – 12: Imperial bronze lion sculptures in the ruins of the Old Summer Palace, Beijing, China, 1869 (Hulton Archive/Getty Images); pages 46 – 47: Street in Old Cairo, c. 1900 (Photo Collection Alexander Alland, Sr./Corbis); pages 124 – 25: Chinese officers’ school in Tianjin, c. 1900 (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis); pages 184 – 86: Turkish president Kemal Ataturk visits Eskiehir after signing a treaty with France in Ankara in 1921 (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis); pages 216 – 17: Philosopher and teacher Rabindranath Tagore reads to a group of his students in 1929 (E. O. Hoppé/Corbis); pages 242 – 43: Indian president Rajendra Prasad (left) and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (right) greet North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh on his arrival at New Delhi’s Palam Airport in 1958 (Bettmann/Corbis)

  eISBN 9781429945981

  First eBook Edition : August 2012

  First American edition, 2012

  Library of Congress Control Number: 2012940483

  ISBN: 978-0-374-24959-5

 

 

 


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