Underground Asia explores a clandestine global network of anti-imperialist revolutionaries and their struggles against empire in early twentieth century Asia. The text looks beyond any one nation-state; instead, it shifts attention to the interpersonal network that was forged between various revolutionaries that spanned Asia, Europe, and the Americas from the 1890s until the 1930s. Harper…
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Review Essay 8 on A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia
In A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia, Aaron Friedberg argues that fundamental ideological differences, coupled with tensions inherent in power transition, have placed the United States (U.S.) and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on a path toward increasing competition, and, potentially, collision. For all its apprehensiveness about…