Rise of the West and Asian Responses Quiz

Who wrote the book 'The Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia'?

• John Green

• Pankaj Mishra

• Liang Qichao

• Rabindranath Tagore

Which Asian thinker advocated for Muslims to think of themselves as a culturally unified people?

• Sayyid Jamal Ad-Din Al-Afghani

• Liang Qichao

• Rabindranath Tagore

• Feng Guifen

What was the phrase coined by Feng Guifen in response to the humiliation of the Opium Wars?

• Pan-Asianism

• Self-Strengthening

• Tanzimat

• Pan-Arabism

Which Asian reformer attempted to update Confucianism for the modern world?

• Liang Qichao

• Kang Youwei

• Sayyid Jamal Ad-Din Al-Afghani

• Rabindranath Tagore

Who became skeptical of the 'if you can't fight 'em, emulate 'em' strategy of dealing with imperialism after the Treaty of Versailles?

• Gandhi

• Liang Qichao

• Rabindranath Tagore

• Sayyid Jamal Ad-Din Al-Afghani

Which Asian thinker won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for a body of work that criticized the West's modern civilization?

• Sayyid Jamal Ad-Din Al-Afghani

• Liang Qichao

• Kang Youwei

• Rabindranath Tagore

What did Gandhi criticize about the West's modernism?

• Lack of technological advancement

• Lack of spiritual freedom and social harmony

• Lack of industrial revolution

• Lack of political stability

Which Asian thinker embraced the idea that the best defense against the West was Islam?

• Sayyid Jamal Ad-Din Al-Afghani

• Kang Youwei

• Rabindranath Tagore

• Liang Qichao

What did Liang Qichao become convinced of after visiting the United States?

• The failure of authoritarian rule

• The need for liberal democracies

• The success of Western education system

• The discrimination against Asians in liberal democracies

What did Rabindranath Tagore caution the audience in New York about?

• The lack of technological advancement in the West

• The exploitation and humiliation of unfortunate people by the West

• The lack of cultural diversity in the West

• The lack of industrial revolution in the West