Imagining Regions

Olga Lomová is Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the International Sinological Center at Charles University in Prague. She is author and co-author of several research monographs and translations from Chinese. She focuses on medieval Chinese poetry, the history of Chinese literature and of sinology, and the intellectual transformation of China under Western influence in the early 20th century.Zora Hesová is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Charles University, Prague. She works on the Islamic intellectual tradition, modern Islam in Europe, and, more generally, on religion in contemporary politics, with a particular focus on Central and South-Eastern Europe.

• Acknowledgments viiList of contributors viiiList of illustrations xIntroduction 1OLGA LOMOVÁ, ZORA HESOVÁ, AND PAVEL BARŠAPART IProto-national regional imagination 211 East or Chinese Turkistan? Pan-Turkism in Uyghur nation-building in Xinjiang, 1912–1949 23ONDŘEJ KLIMEŠ, ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES2 Between East and West: Pan-Islamism in the nationalisation of Bosnian Muslims 45ZORA HESOVÁ, CHARLES UNIVERSITY3 Residual pan-Slavism in Putin’s Russia: Communitarian geopolitics and populist ideology 70MIKHAIL SUSLOV4 Scandinavian: From a political category to a demonym 90HELENA BŘEZINOVÁ, CHARLES UNIVERSITYPART IIHegemonic constructions of regions in Europe 1175 East of the EU, west of Eurasia: Central and Eastern Europe adrift between the emerging world-systems 119MARTIN HÁLA, CHARLES UNIVERSITY6 Regional imagination between two refugee crises: Emergence and dissolution of Central Europe as the Visegrad Group, 2015–2022 136PAVEL BARŠA AND ONDŘEJ SLAČÁLEK, CHARLES UNIVERSITY7 ‘Western Balkans’: Political dimensions and performative functions of the EU-emitted discourses toward the region 161JASMIN HASIĆ, SARAJEVO SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND AMER KURTOVIĆ, IBU SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTERPART IIIImperial geopolitics and regional imagination in Asia 1818 ‘A lofty Asia and the profound East’: Nehru, India, and the ideas of Asia 183SHARINEE L. JAGTIANI11, GIGA INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN STUDIES9 Between China and Japan: The shifting center of Asianist imaginations in Manchukuo, 1932–45 202MARTIN BLAHOTA, ORIENTAL INSTITUTE, CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES10 “Overseas Chinese” and “Sinophone”: A region in making and breaking 217OLGA LOMOVÁ, CHARLES UNIVERSITYIndex 233