From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia

Prologue -- Asia Subordinated -- Egypt : 'the Beginning Of A Series Of Great Misfortunes' ; The Slow Battering Of India And China ; The New Global Hierarchy -- The Strange Odyssey Of Jamal Al-din Al-afghani -- An Insignificant Man In Rough Garments ; The 'sick Man' Of Europe And His Dangerous Self-therapy ; Egypt : The Polemicist Emerges ; Beyond Self-strengthening : The Origins Of Pan-islamism And Nationalism ; The European Interlude ; Apotheosis In Persia ; In A Golden Cage : Al-afghani's Last Days In Istanbul ; The Long Aftermath -- Liang Qichao's China And The Fate Of Asia -- The Enviable But Inimitable Rise Of Japan ; The First Impulses Of Reform ; Japan And The Perils Of Exile ; The Boxer Rising : More Lessons From Defeat ; Pan-asianism : The Pleasures Of Cosmopolitanism ; Liang And Democracy In America ; The Temptations Of Autocracy And Revolution -- 1919, 'changing The History Of The World' -- The United States And Its Promises Of Self-determination ; Liberal Internationalism Or Liberal Imperialism? ; Making The World Unsafe For Democracy ; The Decline Of The West? -- Rabindranath Tagore In East Asia, The Man From The Lost Country -- Asia Remade -- The Sting In The Tail : Pan-asianism And Military Decolonization ; Intellectual Decolonization : The Rise Of Neo-traditionalists ; The Triumphs Of The Nation-state : Turkey, The Sick Man, Revives ; 'the Chinese People Have Stood Up' ; The Rise Of The 'rest' -- Epilogue : An Ambiguous Revenge. Pankaj Mishra. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.