The Renaissance of Asia: Lectures Delivered under the Auspices of the Committee on International Relations on the Los Angeles Campus of the University of California 1939

The Renaissance of Asia brings together a series of lectures delivered in 1939 under the auspices of the Committee on International Relations at the University of California, Los Angeles, capturing the extraordinary moment when Asia’s political future stood at a crossroads on the eve of the Second World War. Though occasioned by immediate crisis, the volume reflects strikingly prescient analyses of the forces reshaping the continent—from the stirrings of Indian nationalism to the vulnerabil...