Underground Asia
Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
Book • 2020
This book by Tim Harper explores the intensifying anti-colonial activity across South, Southeast, and East Asia in the opening decades of the 20th century.
It reveals how young radicals from across Asia, using new technologies like cheap printing presses and global travel, built clandestine networks to fight against colonial regimes.
The narrative highlights the interconnected lives of Asian Marxists, anarchists, and nationalists such as M. N. Roy, Ho Chi Minh, and Tan Malaka, and how these movements fundamentally undermined European empires from below.
The book offers a fresh perspective on familiar events, bringing to life a cast of historical actors often forgotten in their own national histories.
It reveals how young radicals from across Asia, using new technologies like cheap printing presses and global travel, built clandestine networks to fight against colonial regimes.
The narrative highlights the interconnected lives of Asian Marxists, anarchists, and nationalists such as M. N. Roy, Ho Chi Minh, and Tan Malaka, and how these movements fundamentally undermined European empires from below.
The book offers a fresh perspective on familiar events, bringing to life a cast of historical actors often forgotten in their own national histories.
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