The present publication includes all the conference papers presented, as well as transcripts of the commentaries and floor discussions. Biographies of chairpersons, speakers and commentators included.
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conference,  postcolonialism,  politics,  globalisation,  nationalism,  modernism,  modernity,  ethnicity,  identity,  capitalism,  Asia,  Malaysia,  Philippines,  India,  China,  Singapore,  Japan
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conference proceedings
Session I: The Past as Prologue - Opening Keynote Address
'Asia' and the Twentieth Century: What is 'Asian Modernity'? - Dipesh CHAKRABARTY
Session II: War and Violence, History and Memory - Ricardo T. JOSE
Time, Narrative, and History: Twentieth-Century China - Xin LIU
Session III: Colonialism, Communism, and Nation-State Formation
The Haunting of Asia and Asians - Caroline S. HAU
Postcolonialism and Diasporic Space in Japan - KANG Sangjung, 강상중
Session IV: The Rise of Capitalism in Asia
Asian Capitalism: Extrapolating the Future from the Past - Walden BELLO
Living With Capitalism in Asia, Uncomfortably - CHUA Benghuat
Session V: Culture and Consciousness
Civilisation Discourse and the Nation-state in the 20th Century - Prasenjit DUARA, 杜赞奇
'You Asians' - on the historical role of the West and Asia binary - Naoki SAKAI, 酒井直樹
Session VI: Concluding Keynote Address
Beginning the Twenty-First Century: Has the Twentieth Century Really Ended? - Nurcholish MADJID
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