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  title info:
    title: Underground Asia
    sub title: global revolutionaries and the assault on empire
  name:
    name part: Harper, T. N. (Timothy Norman)
    name part: 1965-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First Harvard University Press edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxx, 825 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: This is the epic tale of how modern Asia emerged out of conflict between imperial powers and a global network of revolutionaries in the turbulent early decades of the twentieth century. In 1900, European empires had not yet reached their territorial zenith. But a new generation of Asian radicals had already planted the seeds of their destruction. They gained new energy and recruits after the First World War and especially the Bolshevik Revolution, which sparked utopian visions of a free and communist world order led by the peoples of Asia. Aided by the new technologies of cheap printing presses and international travel, they built clandestine webs of resistance from imperial capitals to the front lines of insurgency that stretched from Calcutta and Bombay to Batavia, Hanoi and Shanghai. Tim Harper takes us into the heart of this shadowy world by following the interconnected lives of the most remarkable of these Marxists, anarchists and nationalists, including the Bengali radical M. N. Roy, the iconic Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh and the enigmatic Indonesian communist Tan Malaka. He recreates the extraordinary milieu of stowaways, false identities, secret codes, cheap firearms and conspiracies in which they worked. He shows how they fought with subterfuge, violence and persuasion, all the while struggling to stay one step ahead of imperial authorities. Underground Asia shows for the first time how Asia's national liberation movements crucially depended on global action. And it reveals how the consequences of the revolutionaries' struggle, for better or worse, shape Asia's destiny to this day.
  table of contents: Prelude: On the Threshold of Free Asia (1924) -- In Search of a Lost Country (1905) -- Fugitive Visions (1905-1909) -- Empire's Inner Demons (1905-1909) -- The Fury of Enlightenment (1909-1912) -- Pundits of the Seas (1912-1914) -- The Great Asian War (1914) -- Ghost Ships (1915) -- The New Great Game (1915-1917) -- Victory! (1917-1919) -- To the New Mecca (1919-1921) -- Rebels in Rubber Soles (1921-1922) -- The Next World War (1922-1924) -- Anarchy Loosed (1925-1926) -- The Long March of the Underground (1926-1927) -- Epilogue: Out of Exile.
  note: Tim Harper.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a------
  subject:
    geographic: Asia
    topic: History
    topic: Autonomy and independence movements
  subject:
    geographic: Asia
    topic: History
  classification: 950.4
  identifier: 9780674724617
  identifier: 0674724615
  record info:
    record content source: IOU
    record creation date: 210111
    record change date: 20210422123004.0
    record identifier: in00004405060