• DOI:10.1017/S0026749X15000451
Corpus ID: 130452507

One Asia, or Many? Reflections from connected history

@article{Subrahmanyam2016OneAO,
  title={One Asia, or Many? Reflections from connected history},
  author={S. Subrahmanyam},
  journal={Modern Asian Studies},
  year={2016},
  volume={50},
  pages={5-43}
}

S. Subrahmanyam

Published 2016

Political Science

Modern Asian Studies

It is now widely rumoured that the ‘Asian century’ is upon us. But what does this really mean? As late as 1988, Deng Xiaoping—in remarks made before the Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi—expressed some scepticism about the facility of the formulation. As Deng stated then: In recent years people have been saying that the next century will be the century of Asia and the Pacific, as if that were sure to be the case. I disagree with this view. If we exclude the United States, the only countries… CONTINUE READING

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