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Prasenjit Duara CV

Oscar L. Tang Family Distinguished Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies
History
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Scholarly Works - Books


Beyond Regimes: China and India compared

Book · October 26, 2020 For many years, China and India have been powerfully shaped by both transnational and subnational circulatory forces. This edited volume explores these local and global influences as they play out in the contemporary era. The analysis focuses on four inter ... Cite

The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian traditions and a sustainable future

Book · January 1, 2015 © Prasenjit Duara 2015. In this major new study, Prasenjit Duara expands his influential theoretical framework to present circulatory, transnational histories as an alternative to nationalist history. Duara argues that the present day is defined by the int ... Full text Cite

The global and regional in China's nation-formation

Book · December 1, 2008 China's history tends to be studied from a national perspective only. The Global and Regional in China's Nation-Formation attempts to train our eyes to see the picture of China less as a self-contained entity, a "geobody", than as part of a broader set of ... Full text Cite

Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern

Book · September 1, 2004 In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the case of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945, to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and ... Full text Cite

Decolonization: Perspectives from now and then

Book · January 1, 2004 Decolonization brings together the most cutting-edge thinking by major historians of decolonization, including previously unpublished essays and writings by leaders of decolonizing countries including Ho Chi-Minh and Jawaharlal Nehru. The chapters in this ... Full text Cite

Rescuing History from the Nation Questioning Narratives of Modern China

Book · November 20, 1996 In this book, Duara offers a way out of the impasse between constructionism and the evolving nation; he redefines history as a series of multiple, often conflicting narratives produced simultaneously at national, local, and transnational ... ... Cite