Beyond Pan-Asianism connecting China and India, 1840s-1960s / Tansen Sen;

IntroductionSection 1: Epistemological InterventionsChapter One: Slave of the Colonizer: The Indian Policeman in Chinese Literature Adhira MangalagiriChapter Two: China-India Myths in Xu Dishan's 'Goddess of Supreme Essence' Gal GviliChapter Three: Rethinking Pan-Asianism through Zhang Taiyan: India as Method Viren MurthySection 2: Encounters and ImagesChapter Four: Through the 'Indian Lens': Observations and Self-Reflections in Late Qing Chinese Travel Writings on India Zhang KeChapter Five: India-China 'Connectedness': China and Pan-Asianism in the late-19th to mid-20th Century Writings in Hindi Kamal SheelChapter Six: China in the Popular Imagination: Images of Chin in North India at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Anand A. YangSection 3: Cultures and MediatorsChapter Seven: 'Tagore and China' Reconsidered: Starting from a Conversation with Feng Youlan Yu-ting LeeChapter Eight: When Culture Meets State Diplomacy: The Case of Cheena Bhavana Brian TsuiChapter Nine: Erecting a Gurdwara on Queen's Road East -The Singh Sabha Movement, the Boxer Uprising, and the Sikh Community in Hong Kong Cao YinChapter Ten: Mecca between China and India: Wartime Chinese Islamic Diplomatic Missions across the Indian Ocean Janice Hyeju JeongSection 4: Building and Challenging Imperial NetworksChapter Eleven: Indian Political Activism in Republican China Madhavi ThampiChapter Twelve: Between Alliance and Rivalry: Nationalist China and India During World War II Wen-shuo Liao Chapter Thirteen: Shipping Nationalism in India and China, 1920-1952 Anne ReinhardtChapter Fourteen: The Chinese Intrigue in Kalimpong: Intelligence Gathering and the 'Spies' in a Contact Zone Tansen SenEpiloguePrasenjit Duara

Within Asia, the period from 1840s to 1960s had witnessed the rise and decline of Pax Britannica, the growth of multiple and often competing anti-colonial movements, and the entrenchment of the nation-state system. This book seeks to demonstrate the complex interactions between China, India, and their neighbouring societies against this background of imperialism and nationalist resistance. The contributors to this volume, from India, the West, and the Chinese-speaking world, cover a tremendous breadth of figures, including novelists, soldiers, intelligence officers, archivists, among others, by deploying published and archival materials in multiple Asian and Western languages.