Lion König, Bidisha Chaudhuri (eds.): Politics of the “Other” in India and China. Western Concepts in non-Western ContextsDagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam

ASIEN – Nr. 142 (2017) pp. 98–99

London: Routledge, 2016. 256 S., 95 GBP

The intriguing title of this volume originating from a conference panel is qualified by the sub-title: it does not discuss the concept of the “Other“ as such but rather the “indigenisation“ of western socio–political concepts in the Indian and Chinese contexts. Noteworthy is the foreword by T. K. Ommen who succinctly summarises the European imagery of the “Other” from the age of discovery until the present and shows that while the terminology changes, the (mis)conceptions often do not…