Download or read book A Global Conceptual History of Asia, 1860–1940 written by Hagen Schulz-Forberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this volume explore the changing concepts of the social and the economic during a period of fundamental change across Asia. They challenge accepted explanations of how Western knowledge spread through Asia and show how versatile Asian intellectuals were in introducing European concepts and in blending them with local traditions.