TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guha,Ramachandra
TI  - Makers of modern Asia
SN  - 9780674365414
U1  - 920 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Politicians
KW  - Asia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The politics behind the Economics of Asia's rise /;  Ramachandra Guha --; Ch. 1; Gandhi, India and the World; Ramachandra Guha --; Ch. 2; Chiang Kai-shek and Chinese modernization; Jay Taylor; Ch. 3; Ho Chi Minh : nationalist icon; Sophie Quinn-Judge --; Ch. 4; Mao Zedong and charismatic maoism; Rana Mitter; Ch. 5; Jawaharlal Nehru: a romantic in politics; Ramachandra Guha.; Ch. 6;  Zhou Enlai and China's "prolonged rise"; Chen Jian --; Ch. 7; Sukarno: anticipating an Asian century; James S. Rush --; Ch. 8; Den Xioping and the China he made; Odd Arne Westad --; Ch. 9; Indira Ghandi: India and the world in transition; Srinath Raghavan --; Ch. 10; Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew : traveling light, traveling fast; Michael D. Barr --; Ch. 11; Zulkifar Ali Bhutto: in pursuit of an Asian Pakistan; Farzana Shaikh
N2  - The twenty-first century has been dubbed the Asian Century. Highlighting diverse thinker-politicians rather than billionaire businessmen, it presents eleven leaders who theorized and organized anticolonial movements, strategized and directed military campaigns, and designed and implemented political systems
ER  -