Making a world after empire : the Bandung moment and its political afterlives. / Christopher J Lee.

Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Between a Moment and an Era:The Origins and Afterlives of Bandung; Part 1: Framings: Concepts, Politics, History; Chapter 1: The Legacies of Bandung; Chapter 2: Contested Hegemony; Chapter 3: Modeling States and Sovereignty; Part 2: Alignments and Nonalignments: Movements, Projects, Outcomes; Chapter 4: Feminism, Solidarity, and Identity in the Age of Bandung; Chapter 5: Radio Cairo and the Decolonization of East Africa, 1953-64; Chapter 6: Mao in Zanzibar; Chapter 7: Working Ahead of Time; Chapter 8: Tricontinentalism in Question. Part 3: The Present: Predicaments, Practices, SpeculationChapter 9: China's Engagement with Africa; Chapter 10: Superpower Osama; Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Index.

In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world. Representing approximately two-thirds of the world's population, the Bandung conference occurred during a key moment of transition in the mid-twentieth century-amid the global wave of decolonization that took place after the Second World War and the nascent establishment of a new cold war world order in its wake. Participants such as Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Zho.