[Reader-list] Invitation to Talk by Viren Murthy at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a talk





*Rethinking Resistance in Asia: *

Takeuchi Yoshimi, China and the Problem of Revolutionary Politics

by Viren Murthy





*Aditya Nigam* will Chair

Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 4.30 pm
                           *RSVP*

CSDS Seminar
Room,
Tel: 011 23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi
110054
Fax: 011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 4 pm
                                           email: jaya at csds.in




The Japanese public intellectual and sinologist Takeuchi Yoshimi
(1910-1977) has become famous today for constructing a critique of
Eurocentrism that anticipates contemporary postcolonial theory. However,
scholars often overlook how his critique of Eurocentrism was connected to
his aim to create a socialist politics beyond conventional oppositions
between left and right.  Takeuchi asked why the Japanese left was unable to
connect with the Japanese people and found the answer in the left’s
ignorance of the subtle ways in which politics emerges out of everyday life.
He found such a politics of everyday resistance in revolutionary
China.  Although
many have questioned Takeuchi’s idealized vision of Mao’s China, his
constructions of new visions of politics and the everyday speak to our
contemporary world where people feel increasingly alienated from the
political mechanisms that regulated their lives.



*Viren Murthy* teaches transnational Asian History and researches Chinese
and Japanese intellectual history in the Department of History at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of *The Political
Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness* (2011),
co-editor with Axel Schneider of *The Challenge of Linear Time: Nationhood
and the Politics of History in East Asia *(2013), and co-editor with
Prasenjit Duara and Andrew Sartori of *A Companion to Global Historical
Thought*, (2014).  He has published articles in *Modern Intellectual
History*, *Modern China*, *Frontiers of History in China* and *Positions:
Asia Critique*.



*Aditya Nigam* is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies.



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Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
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