作者：TimHarper
出版社：AllenLane
副标题：GlobalRevolutionariesandtheAssaultonEmpire
出版年：2020-10-29
页数：864
定价：GBP21.99
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9781846145629
内容简介
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‘A magnificent, sweeping history of Asian revolutionary movements’ Tony Barber, Financial Times
The story of the hidden struggle waged by secret networks around the world to destroy European imperialism
The end of Europe’s empires has so often been seen as a story of high politics and warfare. In Tim Harper’s remarkable new book the narrative is very different: it shows how empires were fundamentally undermined from below. Using the new technology of cheap printing presses, global travel and the widespread use of French and English, young radicals from across Asia were able to communicate in ways simply not available before. These clandestine networks stretched to the heart of the imperial metropolises: to London, to Paris, to the Americas, but also increasingly to Moscow.
They created a secret global network which was for decades engaged in bitter fighting with imperial police forces. They gathered in the great hubs of Asia – Calcutta, Singapore, Batavia, Hanoi, Tokyo, Shanghai, Canton and Hong Kong – and plotted with ceaseless ingenuity, both through persuasion and terrorism, the end of the colonial regimes. Many were caught and killed or imprisoned, but others would go on to rule their newly independent countries.
Drawing on an amazing array of new sources, Underground Asia turns upside-down our understanding of twentieth-century empire. The reader enters an extraordinary world of stowaways, false identities, secret codes, cheap firearms, assassinations and conspiracies, as young Asians made their own plans for their future.
作者简介
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Tim Harper is Professor of the History of Southeast Asia at the University of Cambridge, a Director of the Centre for History and Economics, and a Fellow of Magdalene College. He was the co-author with Christopher Bayly of two landmark Penguin books on the British Empire’s experience of the Second World War in south and southeast Asia: Forgotten Armies and Forgotten Wars.
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Asian Studies的印度老师强力安利的。二十世纪初，全球人口流动变得容易，各种革命思潮随着人流从欧入亚，各殖民帝国的根基开始动摇。革命运动以一战为分水岭。战前，泛亚思想是主流，清帝国的崩溃在整个亚洲引起一片欢呼，诉求也以在帝国框架下进行改革为主；各帝国试图镇压但畏手畏脚，且各自为战，结果是A国革命者流放到B国，B国革命者流放到A国，反而给了他们同声相求的机会。战后，一则双方都趋激进，革命者…
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