Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Crossing the World Color Line -- Part I. The Color Line Belts the World -- India -- Asia in Africa -- The Color Line Belts the World -- The World Problem of the Color Line -- The Negro and Imperialism -- The American Negro and the Darker World -- Part II. Darkwater Rising: Japan and the Color of Imperialism -- The Union of Colour -- The Clash of Colour: Indians and American Negroes -- Listen, Japan and China -- Japan and Ethiopia -- Man Power -- What Japan Has Done -- The Yellow Sea -- China and Japan -- The Color of Asia -- A Chronicle of Race Relations [I] -- Part III. World War II and the Anticolonial Turn -- A Chronicle of Race Relations [II] -- Prospect of a World Without Racial Conflict -- Nehru -- The Freeing of India -- Gandhi and the American Negroes -- The Colonial Groups in the Postwar World -- Part IV. The East Is Red: Revolutions and Resolutions -- Indonesia -- Burma -- Malaya -- Will the Great Gandhi Live Again? -- Our Visit to China -- The Vast Miracle of China Today: A Report on a Ten-Week Visit to the People's Republic of China -- China and Africa -- A Partial Chronology of Asia in the Career of W. E. B. Du Bois -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

After Japan's defeat of Russia in the 1904 territorial war, W. E. B. Du Bois declared, "The Color Line in civilization has been crossed in modern times as it was in the great past. The awakening of the yellow races is certain. That the awakening of the brown and black races will follow in time, no unprejudiced student of history can doubt." Du Bois's lifelong certitude that Asia would play a central role in determining the fates of races, nations, and world systems of power has not until now been made fully available. W. E. B. Du Bois on Asia captures in unprecedented detail Du Bois's first-person experiences of and responses to Indian nationalism, the war between China and Japan, the life of Mahatma Gandhi, colonialism in Malaysia and Burma, and the promise of China's Communist Revolution. It also provides critical understanding of Du Bois's obsession with the eternal relationship between Asia and Africa dating from antiquity to the postcolonial era. The Du Bois of this collection emerges as a forerunner of postcolonialist thought, a lifelong internationalist, and the most important African American reader of Asia's place in the making of the modern world. Bill V. Mullen is professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is the author of Afro-Orientalism and Popular Fronts: Chicago and African American Cultural Politics, 1935-1946. Cathryn Watson is a graduate research assistant at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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