To cut off time and seal away the past, to proclaim a new beginning in the present and project a better future onto tomorrow and thus to make history is a key signature of modern social, political and cultural discourses. In this book, this practice is represented through the metaphor of the Zero Hour, which alludes to the wish to rebuild the past in the face of a crisis-ridden present characterised by growing conceptual insecurity, hoping for a more stable future. Indeed, the ever-new construction of our past, sequenced and ordered in explanatory narratives, bears witness to a future that...
To cut off time and seal away the past, to proclaim a new beginning in the present and project a better future onto tomorrow and thus to make history ...
Contributors to this volume explore the changing concepts of the social and the economic during a period of fundamental change across Asia. They challenge accepted explanations of how Western knowledge spread through Asia and show how versatile Asian intellectuals were in introducing European concepts and in blending them with local traditions.
Contributors to this volume explore the changing concepts of the social and the economic during a period of fundamental change across Asia. They chall...
