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+++ Im Schatten des Drachen - ein kluger Blick auf das 'Reich der Mitte' und seine Nachbarn +++Asien ist in Bewegung. Die neue Supermacht China dominiert sowohl den Kontinent als auch den Diskurs über die Region. Um besser zu verstehen, was in seinem Inneren vorgeht, lohnt sich vor allem ein Blick an die Ränder des riesigen Staates.Keiner kann das so meisterhaft und kenntnisreich wie der vielfach ausgezeichnete Publizist und Essayist Pankaj Mishra, der sich der Großmacht China über ihre Grenzen annähert und gekonnt politisches Geschehen, Reisebericht und große Historie miteinander verwebt. Er reist von Beijing über die Mongolei nach Tibet und durch Länder wie Indonesien, Malaysia und Taiwan, um herauszufinden, wie es sich im Schatten des Drachen lebt und welchen Einfluss die unmittelbare Nähe des 'Reichs der Mitte' auf seine Nachbarn hat.Erhellende und ungewöhnliche Einblicke in eine der wichtigsten Regionen des 21. Jahrhunderts.

*WINNER OF A PALESTINE BOOK AWARD*From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications'Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding' NAOMI KLEIN'Mishra has made a powerful contribution to the moral history of the world' ANDREW O'HAGAN'Urgent' HISHAM MATAR'Brilliant' WILLIAM DALRYMPLEMemory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe's civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era. Fears of its recurrence have been routinely invoked to justify Israel's policies against Palestinians. But for most people around the world - the 'darker peoples', in W. E. B. Du Bois's words - the main historical memory is of the traumatic experiences of slavery and colonialism, and the central event of the twentieth century is decolonisation - freedom from the white man's world.The World After Gaza takes the war in the Middle East, and the bitterly polarised reaction to it within as well as outside the West, as the starting point for a broad reevaluation of two competing narratives of the last century: the West's triumphant account of victory over Nazi and communist totalitarianism, and the spread of liberal capitalism, and the global majority's frequently thwarted vision of racial equality. At a moment when the world's balance of power is shifting and a long-dominant Western minority no longer commands the same authority and credibility, it is critically important to enter the experiences and perspectives of the majority of the world's population.As old touchstones and landmarks crumble, only a new history with a sharply different emphasis can reorient us to the world and worldviews now emerging into the light. In this concise, powerful and pointed treatise, Mishra reckons with the fundamental questions posed by our present crisis - about whether some lives matter more than others, why identity politics built around memories of suffering is being widely embraced and why racial antagonisms are intensifying amid a far-right surge in the West, threatening a global conflagration. The World After Gaza is an indispensable moral guide to our past, present and future.

Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image - shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013<BR><BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2013<BR><BR>Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. As the British gunned down the last heirs to the Mughal Empire or burned down the Summer Palace in Beijing, it was clear that for Asia to recover a new way of thinking was needed. Pankaj Mishra re-tells the history of the past two centuries, showing how a remarkable, disparate group of thinkers, journalists, radicals and charismatics emerged from the ruins of empire to create an unstoppable Asian renaissance, one whose ideas lie behind everything from the Chinese Communist Party to the Muslim Brotherhood, and have made our world what it is today.<BR><BR>Reviews:<BR><BR>'Arrestingly original ... this penetrating and disquieting book should be on the reading list of anybody who wants to understand where we are today' John Gray, Independent <BR><BR>'A riveting account that makes new and illuminating connections ... deeply entertaining and deeply humane' Hisham Matar<BR><BR>'Fascinating ... a rich and genuinely thought-provoking book' Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph<BR><BR>'Provocative, shaming and convincing' Michael Binyon, The Times <BR><BR>'Lively ... engaging ... retains the power to shock' Mark Mazower, Financial Times<BR><BR>'Subtle, erudite and entertaining' Economist, New Delhi<BR><BR>About the author:<BR><BR>Pankaj Mishra is the author of Butter Chicken in Ludiana, The Romantics, An End to Suffering and Temptations of the West. He writes principally for the Guardian, The New York Times, London Review of Books and New York Review of Books. He lives in London, Shimla and New York.

Die kritische Analyse von einem der großen international anerkannten IntellektuellenBestsellerautor Pankaj Mishra liefert in seinem neuen Buch eine kritische, postkoloniale Analyse des Krieges in Nahost. Er beleuchtet die historischen Hintergründe und geopolitischen Folgen sowie die gespaltenen weltweiten Reaktionen und verdeutlicht, warum eine andere, multiperspektivische Erzählung des aktuellen Konflikts essenziell für das Verständnis unserer Zeit ist.In einer Epoche, in der die westliche Dominanz bröckelt und sich globale Machtverhältnisse neu ordnen, lädt Pankaj Mishra dazu ein, mit Blick auf die Zukunft weltweite Ungleichheiten anders zu betrachten und die Perspektive des globalen Südens einzubeziehen. Ein hochaktueller, kluger sowie kontroverser Beitrag zu einer der wichtigsten Debatten der Gegenwart.

*WINNER OF A PALESTINE BOOK AWARD*<BR><BR>From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications<BR><BR>'Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding' NAOMI KLEIN<BR>'Mishra has made a powerful contribution to the moral history of the world' ANDREW O'HAGAN<BR>'Urgent' HISHAM MATAR<BR>'Brilliant' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE<BR><BR>Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe's civil wars and the paradigmatic genocide, has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era. Fears of its recurrence have been routinely invoked to justify Israel's policies against Palestinians. But for most people around the world - the 'darker peoples', in W. E. B. Du Bois's words - the main historical memory is of the traumatic experiences of slavery and colonialism, and the central event of the twentieth century is decolonisation - freedom from the white man's world.<BR><BR>The World After Gaza takes the war in the Middle East, and the bitterly polarised reaction to it within as well as outside the West, as the starting point for a broad reevaluation of two competing narratives of the last century: the West's triumphant account of victory over Nazi and communist totalitarianism, and the spread of liberal capitalism, and the global majority's frequently thwarted vision of racial equality. At a moment when the world's balance of power is shifting and a long-dominant Western minority no longer commands the same authority and credibility, it is critically important to enter the experiences and perspectives of the majority of the world's population.<BR><BR>As old touchstones and landmarks crumble, only a new history with a sharply different emphasis can reorient us to the world and worldviews now emerging into the light. In this concise, powerful and pointed treatise, Mishra reckons with the fundamental questions posed by our present crisis - about whether some lives matter more than others, why identity politics built around memories of suffering is being widely embraced and why racial antagonisms are intensifying amid a far-right surge in the West, threatening a global conflagration. The World After Gaza is an indispensable moral guide to our past, present and future.

Asiens Antwort auf den westlichen Imperialismus Nachdem die letzten Erben des Mogul-Reiches getötet waren und der Sommerpalast in Peking zerstört, schien die asiatische Welt vom Westen besiegt. Erstmals erzählt der Essayist und Schriftsteller Pankaj Mishra, wie in dieser Situation Intellektuelle in Indien, China und Afghanistan eine Fülle an Ideen entwickelten, die zur Grundlage für ein neues Asien wurden. Sie waren es, die Mao und Gandhi inspirierten und neue Strömungen des Islam anregten. Von hier aus nahmen die verschiedenen Länder ihren jeweiligen Weg in die Moderne. Unterhaltsam und eindringlich schildert Pankaj Mishra die Entstehung des antikolonialen Denkens und seine Folgen. Ein Buch, das einen völlig neuen Blick auf die Geschichte der Welt bietet und den Schlüssel liefert, um das heutige Asien zu verstehen. 'Brillant. Mishra spiegelt den tradierten westlichen Blick auf Asien zurück. Moderne Geschichte, wie sie die Mehrheit der Weltbevölkerung erfahren hat - von der Türkei bis China. Großartig.'Orhan Pamuk