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DECOLONIZATION The process of decolonization which started after World War I utterly reshaped the world. Rather than occurring as a coherent event, decolo- nization varied from country to country in its shape and duration, and has been evaluated in many different ways over time. But is decoloniza- tion complete? What replaces former colonial controls after independence? Are Western historical frameworks adequate to describe decolonization? Decolonizationbrings together the most cutting-edge thinking by major historians of decolonization, including both analytical articles by contemporary historians, and writings by statesmen and intellectual leaders of the decolonization movement such as Ho Chi Minh and Jawaharlal Nehru. The chapters in this volume present a move away from both the older Western as well as nationalist views of decoloniza- tion, toweards a deeper historical view of it as a wider and still unfinished process. This is a groundbreaking survey of a subject central to modern global history. Prasenjit Duara is Professor of History and East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Culture, Power and the State: Rural Society in North China, 1900–1942 (1988), Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China (1997) and Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern(2003). Series editor Jack R. Censer is Professor of History at George Mason University. REWRITING HISTORIES Series editor: Jack R. Censer ATLANTIC AMERICAN SOCIETIES From Columbus through Abolition Edited by J. R. McNeill and Alan Karras DECOLONIZATION Perspectives from now and then Edited by Prasenjit Duara DIVERSITYAND UNITYIN EARLYNORTH AMERICA Edited by Philip Morgan THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Recent Debates and Controversies Edited by Gary Kates GENDER AND AMERICAN HISTORYSINCE 1890 Edited by Barbara Melosh GLOBALFEMINISMS SINCE 1945 Edited by Bonnie G. Smith THE HOLOCAUST Origins, Implementation, Aftermath Edited by Omer Bartov THE INDUSTRIALREVOLUTION AND WORK IN NINETEENTH- CENTURYEUROPE Edited by Lenard R. Berlanstein THE ISRAEL/PALESTINE QUESTION Edited by Ilan Pappe NAZISM AND GERMAN SOCIETY, 1933–1945 Edited by David Crew THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR An International History Edited by David Painter and Melvyn Leffler REFORMATION TO REVOLUTION Edited by Margo Todd THE RENAISSANCE Italy and Abroad Edited by John Jeffries Martin THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1989 Edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu SEGREGATION AND APARTHEID IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOUTH AFRICA Edited by William Beinart and Saul Dubow SOCIETYAND CULTURE IN THE SLAVE SOUTH Edited by J. William Harris STALINISM New Directions Edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick TWENTIETH-CENTURYCHINA New Approaches Edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom DECOLONIZATION Perspectives from now and then Edited by Prasenjit Duara First published 2004 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P4EE Simultaneously published in the USAand Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. © 2003 Prasenjit Duara All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data ISBN 0-203-48552-1 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-56955-5 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0–415–24840x (hbk) ISBN 0–415–248418 (pbk) vi CONTENTS Series Page ii Acknowledgements xi Notes on contributors xiv Map of Africa, Asia and Europe after World War II xvii 1 Introduction: the decolonization of Asia and Africa in the twentieth century 1 PRASENJIT DUARA Part I In their own words 2 San min chu I(The three principles of the people): selections from Lecture 4 21 SUN YAT-SEN 3 The path that led me to Leninism 29 HO CHI MINH 4 The importance of the national idea: changes necessary in India 32 JAWAHARLAL NEHRU 5 Algeria unveiled 42 FRANTZ FANON 6 Diagnosing an illness 56 JALAL AL-I AHMAD vii CONTENTS 7 Society and ideology 64 KWAME NKRUMAH Part II Imperialism and nationalism 8 Contested hegemony: the Great War and the Afro-Asian assault on the civilizing mission ideology 78 MICHAEL ADAS 9 The world of history and the world-as-history: twentieth-century theories of imperialism 101 PATRICK WOLFE 10 The revolt against the West 118 GEOFFREY BARRACLOUGH 11 My ambition is much higher than independence’: US power, the UN world, the nation-state, and their critics 131 JOHN D. KELLY AND MARTHA KAPLAN 12 Empire preserv’d: how the Americans put anti- communism before anti-imperialism 152 WILLIAM ROGER LOUIS AND RONALD ROBINSON 13 The troubled history of partition 162 RADHA KUMAR Part III Regions and themes 14 ` Don’t paint nationalism red!’: national revolution and socialist anti-imperialism 176 RONALD GRIGOR SUNY 15 Islamic renewal and the ‘failure of the West’ 199 JOHN O. VOLL viii CONTENTS 16 The dialectics of decolonization: nationalism and labour movements in post-war French Africa 218 FREDERICK COOPER 17 Social construction of idealized images of women in colonial Korea: the ‘new woman’ versus ‘motherhood’ 239 JIWEON SHIN 18 National divisions in Indochina’s decolonization 253 STEIN TØNNESSON 19 Colonial formations and deformations: Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam 278 BRUCE CUMINGS Index 299 ix
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