Viren Murthy is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan and The Politics of Time in China and Japan.

“Murthy’s book is a breathtaking achievement that combines in a true dialectical synthesis what Western intellectuals consider incompatible. This book is necessary reading for all who are interested in our future!”

• Introduction: Pan-Asianism in the Short Twentieth CenturyChapter One: Asia as Pharmakon: The Early Constitution of Asia as ResistanceChapter Two: The Critique of Linear Time: Pan-Asianism in Early Twentieth-Century ChinaChapter Three: Asia as Anticapitalist Utopia: Ōkawa Shūmei’s Critique of Political ModernityChapter Four: Takeuchi Yoshimi, Part I: Rethinking China as Political SubjectivityChapter Five: Takeuchi Yoshimi, Part II: Pan-Asianism, Revolutionary Nationalism, and War MemoryChapter Six: Wang Hui: Contemporary Pan-Asianist in China?Epilogue: Pan-Asianism, the Chinese Revolution, and Global MomentsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Viren Murthy is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan and The Politics of Time in China and Japan.

“Murthy’s book is a breathtaking achievement that combines in a true dialectical synthesis what Western intellectuals consider incompatible. This book is necessary reading for all who are interested in our future!”

• Introduction: Pan-Asianism in the Short Twentieth CenturyChapter One: Asia as Pharmakon: The Early Constitution of Asia as ResistanceChapter Two: The Critique of Linear Time: Pan-Asianism in Early Twentieth-Century ChinaChapter Three: Asia as Anticapitalist Utopia: Ōkawa Shūmei’s Critique of Political ModernityChapter Four: Takeuchi Yoshimi, Part I: Rethinking China as Political SubjectivityChapter Five: Takeuchi Yoshimi, Part II: Pan-Asianism, Revolutionary Nationalism, and War MemoryChapter Six: Wang Hui: Contemporary Pan-Asianist in China?Epilogue: Pan-Asianism, the Chinese Revolution, and Global MomentsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Viren Murthy is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan and The Politics of Time in China and Japan.

“Murthy’s book is a breathtaking achievement that combines in a true dialectical synthesis what Western intellectuals consider incompatible. This book is necessary reading for all who are interested in our future!”

• Introduction: Pan-Asianism in the Short Twentieth CenturyChapter One: Asia as Pharmakon: The Early Constitution of Asia as ResistanceChapter Two: The Critique of Linear Time: Pan-Asianism in Early Twentieth-Century ChinaChapter Three: Asia as Anticapitalist Utopia: Ōkawa Shūmei’s Critique of Political ModernityChapter Four: Takeuchi Yoshimi, Part I: Rethinking China as Political SubjectivityChapter Five: Takeuchi Yoshimi, Part II: Pan-Asianism, Revolutionary Nationalism, and War MemoryChapter Six: Wang Hui: Contemporary Pan-Asianist in China?Epilogue: Pan-Asianism, the Chinese Revolution, and Global MomentsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex