Key Points
New Delhi: In Asia After Europe, Harvards Sugata Bose explores the idea of Asian universalism, presenting an alternative to the entrenched dominance of Euro-American thought throughout the 20th century...
Asian nations have emerged as influential players, asserting their identities in a distinct and unapologetic manner, leading to a departure from the usual historical narrative and urging the world to rethink the Asian role during the 20th century...
Published by HarperCollins India, Asia after Europe by Prof. Sugata Bose will be released on 5 February on SoftCover, ThePrints online venue to launch non-fiction books...
The book delves into the shifts between poverty and prosperity among both elites and common people in Asia, exploring the formation and fragmentation of diverse Asian universalisms..
He makes us wonder if the US-led international system based on sovereign nation-states and the new nationalisms that this system produced might have lured Asia too far for its alternative forms of universalism to succeed, wrote Wang Gungwu from the National University of Singapore...
