From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals who Remade Asia - Pankaj Mishra

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 6:00pm
Admission: Members of MI, AS, and WAC Free / Public $12
Location: 4th Floor Meeting Room

Cosponsored by Asia Society & World Affairs Council

In this intriguing portrait of the minds that shaped the modern Asian world, author Pankaj Mishra reviews historical events from the Near, Middle and Far East and the important intellectuals, reformers and revolutionaries from the past two centuries, thinkers who shared a goal of a greater Asia. Sun Yatsen, Liang Qichao, Nehru, and Jamal al-din al Afghani are among the figures examined in this lucid and bracing view of colonialism and its aftermath.

Mishra’s gripping and entertaining narrative challenges popular assumptions about modern Asia’s revolt against the West, and brings to light the leaders who have shaped contemporary China, India and the Muslim world.

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Pankaj Mishra was born in northwest India in 1969 and lives in London and Mashobra, India. The author of An End to Suffering (FSG, 2004) and Temptations of the West (FSG, 2006), as well as a novel, The Romantics, he writes for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and The Guardian.