Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Contents
I ASIAN AND AFRICAN INITIAL RESPONSES
TO
THE COMING OF EUROPEANS
Xavier’s Letters from India and Japan 3
To
the Society at Rome 4
To
Ignatius of Loyola 11
To
the Society at Goa 13
To
the Society in Europe 20
The Christian Daimyo
Feudal Lord 29
Letter
from the Lord of Bungo to Dom Belchior Carneiro 29
Hsu
Kuang-chi and the Jesuits 31
Hsu Kuang-chi’s
Memorial 31
Afonso
I An African Response to Christianity 43
Afonso’s Letter to the
King of Portugal 44
II CULTURAL CRISIS AND
BREAKDOWN
Life of an African
Slave 75
Equiano’s
Travels 75
Ram Mohun Roy India’s
Spiritual World Mission 90
Debate on the Incarnation of the Deity as the
Common
Basis of Hinduism and Christianity 91
Commissioner Lin and
the Opium War 111
Letter
of Commissioner Lin to Queen Victoria 111
The Taiping Rebellion 119
The
Chinese and Their Rebellions 120
The Boxer Uprising 134
A
Boxer Notice 135
The Dutch Learning in
Japan 137
Sugita
Gempaku The Beginning of Dutch Studies 137
Japan Turns to the
West 141
Kume
Kunitake Records of Visits to America and Europe 141
Japan’s Struggle for
Modernization 144
Iwasaki
Yataro A Message to Employees 144
III CULTURAL CONFRONTATION
AND INTELLECTUAL ADAPTATION
The Education of
Fukuzawa Yukichi 149
The
Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi 149
Cultural Uprootedness
A Japanese Case 167
Nagai
Kafu Twilight in the Mediterranean 167
Vivekananda Mutuality
of East and West 170
Address
at the Parliament of Religions 170
The Divine Call and
the Chicago Parliament of Religions 172
China’s
Cultural Revolution 184
Hu Shih The Chinese
Renaissance 185
Social
Realism in China 194
Lu Hsun The True Story
of Ah Q 194
IV ASIAN AND AFRICAN REASSERTION
AGAINST THE WEST
Bridging the Gap Between
India and the West 209
E
M Forster A Passage to India 210
India’s March Toward
Independence 222
The
Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru 222
Pan-Asianism and World
War II 232
Nagayo
Yoshio Our Present War and Its Cultural Significance 232
Japan’s Economic
Growth 237
Ikeda
Hayato America Europe and Japan 237
Mao Tse-tung and
Chinese Communism 240
In
Memory of Norman Bethune 240
What Is a Marxist
Theoretician 242
The
Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains 248
The Canonization of
Maoism 252
Lin Piao Instructions on Raising the Study of
Chairman Mao’s
Works to a New Stage 252
Destruction of
Communal Africa 260
Alan
Paton Cry the Beloved Country 260
African Renaissance 265
Senghor’s
Poems 265
