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Makers of modern Asia / edited by Ramachandra Guha.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014Description: 385 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674365414 (alk. paper)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction: the politics behind the economics of Asia's rise / Ramachandra Guha -- Gandhi, India, and the world / Ramachandra Guha -- Chiang Kai-shek and Chinese modernization / Jay Taylor -- Ho Chi Minh: nationalist icon / Sophie Quinn-Judge -- Mao Zedong and charismatic Maoism / Rana Mitter -- Jawaharlal Nehru: a romantic in politics / Ramachandra Guha -- Zhou Enlai and China's "prolonged rise" / Chen Jian -- Sukarno: anticipating an Asian century / James R. Rush -- Deng Xiaoping and the China he made / Odd Arne Westad -- Indira Gandhi: India and the world in transition / Srinath Raghavan -- Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew: traveling light, traveling fast / Michael D. Barr -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: in pursuit of an Asian Pakistan / Farzana Shaikh.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the politics behind the economics of Asia's rise / Ramachandra Guha -- Gandhi, India, and the world / Ramachandra Guha -- Chiang Kai-shek and Chinese modernization / Jay Taylor -- Ho Chi Minh: nationalist icon / Sophie Quinn-Judge -- Mao Zedong and charismatic Maoism / Rana Mitter -- Jawaharlal Nehru: a romantic in politics / Ramachandra Guha -- Zhou Enlai and China's "prolonged rise" / Chen Jian -- Sukarno: anticipating an Asian century / James R. Rush -- Deng Xiaoping and the China he made / Odd Arne Westad -- Indira Gandhi: India and the world in transition / Srinath Raghavan -- Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew: traveling light, traveling fast / Michael D. Barr -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: in pursuit of an Asian Pakistan / Farzana Shaikh.

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