Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Okakura Tenshin: Crafting an Ideal -- 1 Okakura Tenshin and the Ideal of Pan-Asianism -- 2 Japanese Cultural Identity and Nineteenth-century Asian Nationalism: Okakura Tenshin and Swami Vivekananda -- 3 Okakura Tenshin: Writing a Good History upon a Modern Plan -- Part II Asian Pan-Asianisms -- 4 A Transnational History of Japanese Nationalism: Pan-Asianism and Islam 1900-45 -- 5 Asianism, Nationalism and Culturalism in Early Twentieth Century China -- Part III Art and Asia: Varieties of Engagements -- 6 Landscapes of Nandalal Bose (1882-1966): Japanism, Nationalism and Populism in Modern India -- 7 Voluntary Blindness -- 8 Representing Women: Problematizing an Asian Identity -- Part IV Ways of Defining Asia -- 9 National Bias in Identity Construction: Examples of Academic Groupings in East Asia -- 10 Asia Is One: Visions of Asian Community in Twenty-first Century Japan -- Index.