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Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Contributors xiii Introduction Between a Moment and an Era: The Origins and Afterlives of Bandung 1 Christopher J. Lee Part One Framings: Concepts, Politics, History Chapter one The Legacies of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics of Culture Dipesh Chakrabarty

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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
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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 143 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

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Chapter Seven Working Ahead of Time: Labor and Modernization during the Construction of the TAZARA Railway, 196886 Jamie Monson

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Chapter Eight Tricontinentalism in Question: The Cold War Politics of Alex La Guma and the African National Congress 266 Christopher J. Lee Part Three The Present: Predicaments, Practices, Speculation Chapter Nine Chinas Engagement with Africa: Scope, Significance, and Consequences Denis M. Tull
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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 351 Antoinette Burton Select Bibliography Index 384 362

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