"Originally published in 2012 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain, as From the ruins of empire: the revolt against the West and the remaking of Asia."--T.p. verso

Asia subordinated -- Egypt : 'the beginning of a series of great misfortunes' ; Slow battering of India and China ; New global hierarchy -- Strange odyssey of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani -- An insignificant man in rough garments ; The 'sick man' of Europe and his dangerous self-therapy ; Egypt : the polemicist emerges ; Beyond self-strengthening : the origins of pan-Islamism and nationalism ; European interlude ; Apotheosis in Persia ; In a golden cage : al-Afghani's last days in Istanbul ; Long aftermath -- Liang Qichao's China and the fate of Asia -- Enviable but inimitable rise of Japan ; First impulses of reform ; Japan and the perils of exile ; Boxer Rising : more lessons from defeat ; Pan-Asianism : the pleasures of cosmopolitanism ; Liang and democracy in America ; Temptations of autocracy and revolution -- 1919, 'changing the history of the world' -- United States and its promises of self-determination ; Liberal internationalism or liberal imperialism? ; Making the world unsafe for democracy ; Decline of the West? -- Rabindranath Tagore in East Asia, the man from the lost country -- Asia remade -- Sting in the tail : pan-Asianism and military decolonization ; Intellectual decolonization : the rise of neo-traditionalists ; Triumphs of the nation-state : Turkey, the sick man, revives ; 'The Chinese people have stood up' ; Rise of the 'rest' -- An ambiguous revenge