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THE BANDUNG MOMENT AND ITS POLITICAL AFTERLIVES

Christopher J. Lee

Ohio University Research in International Studies

Global and Comparative Studies Series No. 11

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Front cover images: Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt (top photo) and Zhou Enlai of China (bottom photo) walking to the conference hall in Bandung, Indonesia, April 1955. Reprinted courtesy of the Museum of the Asian-African Conference.

Some of the chapters published in this book have appeared elsewhere and are reprinted with permission:

Dipesh Chakrabarty, The Legacies of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics of Culture, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 40, No. 46, 12 November 2005.

Michael Adas, Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault

on the Civilizing Mission Ideology, Journal of World History, Vol. 15, No. 1 (2004): 3163.

Denis M. Tull, Chinas Engagement in Africa: Scope, Significance and Consequences,

Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2006): 459479.

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Lee, Christopher J.

Making a world after empire : the Bandung moment and its political afterlives / Christopher J. Lee.

p. cm. (Ohio University research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no 11)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-89680-277-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-89680-468-5 (electronic) 1. Asian-African Conference (1st : 1955 : Bandung, Indonesia) 2. Asian-African Conference (1st : 1955 : Bandung, Indonesia)Influence. 3. Afro-Asian politics. 4. AsiaRelationsAfrica. 5. AfricaRelationsAsia. 6. ImperialismHistory20th century. 7. DecolonizationAsiaHistory20th century. 8. DecolonizationAfricaHistory20th century. I. Title.

DS35.2.L44 2010

327.116dc22 2009053610

INTRODUCTION
Between a Moment and an Era: The Origins and Afterlives of Bandung

Christopher J. Lee

PART ONE
Framings: Concepts, Politics, History

CHAPTER ONE
The Legacies of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics of Culture

Dipesh Chakrabarty

CHAPTER TWO
Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault on the Civilizing Mission

Michael Adas

CHAPTER THREE
Modeling States and Sovereignty: Postcolonial Constitutions in Asia and Africa

Julian Go

PART TWO
Alignments and Nonalignments: Movements, Projects, Outcomes

CHAPTER FOUR
Feminism, Solidarity, and Identity in the Age of Bandung: Third World Women in the Egyptian Womens Press

Laura Bier

CHAPTER FIVE
Radio Cairo and the Decolonization of East Africa, 195364

James R. Brennan

CHAPTER SIX
Mao in Zanzibar: Nationalism, Discipline, and the (De)Construction of Afro-Asian Solidarities

G. Thomas Burgess

CHAPTER SEVEN
Working Ahead of Time: Labor and Modernization during the Construction of the TAZARA Railway, 196886

Jamie Monson

CHAPTER EIGHT
Tricontinentalism in Question: The Cold War Politics of Alex La Guma and the African National Congress

Christopher J. Lee

PART THREE
The Present: Predicaments, Practices, Speculation

CHAPTER NINE
Chinas Engagement with Africa: Scope, Significance, and Consequences

Denis M. Tull

CHAPTER TEN
Superpower Osama: Symbolic Discourse in the Indian Ocean Region after the Cold War

Jeremy Prestholdt

EPILOGUE
The Sodalities of Bandung: Toward a Critical 21st-century History

Antoinette Burton

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 10

This volume originated with a workshop entitled Bandung and Beyond: Rethinking Afro-Asian Connections During the Twentieth Century held at the Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, in May 2005. Sponsored by the Empires and Cultures Workshop at the Center, a number of sources provided funding for this event, including the Mellon-Sawyer Program, the department of history at Stanford, the Stanford Society of Fellows in Japanese Studies, the department of philosophy at the University of San Francisco (USF), the Fleischhacker Family Fund (USF), the Yuchengco Philippines Studies Program (USF), the African-American Studies Program at USF, and the Asian-American Studies Program at USF. I would particularly like to thank David Kim, who was the co-organizer, and, in addition to his fundraising at USF, made significant intellectual and personal contributions to the spirit of the meeting. Others who helped make the workshop possible include Richard Roberts, Richard White, Kren Wigen, Zephyr Frank, Ronald Sundstrom, Emily Burrill, Sean Hanretta, Peter Hudson, and Monica Wheeler.

Having evolved over several years, this resulting volume represents a different collection of ideas and research from that presented in 2005. Nevertheless, I would like to draw attention to the work of participants Chris Connery, Judy Wu, Gaurav Desai, Jonathan Greenberg, Minkah Makalani, and, especially, John de Boer, whose research on Japanese diplomatic history deserves a wide readership. The 2007 Decolonization Seminar at the National History Center offered a later period of research support and an ideal audience to test ideas found in the introduction. I am grateful to Roger Louis, Philippa Levine, Dane Kennedy, and Jason Parker, as well as fellow seminar participants, for their support, insights, and time. A fellowship at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge University provided another period of work, reflection, and revision. I thank its director, Mary Jacobus, as well as my fellow visitors for their questions and encouragement. Megan Vaughan, Harri Englund, Arne Westad, and Derek Peterson also supplied conversation and support at Cambridge, as well as critically engaged readings of some of the ideas here. Barbara Harlow offered early inspiration, and Luise White gave advice at different moments along the way. In addition to those already mentioned, Fred Cooper, Marilyn Young, Antoinette Burton, Sarah Shields, Lisa Lindsay, Michael Tsin, and Jim Brennan read penultimate drafts of the introduction to great effect.