In the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Asia, as a "central field of world experience" (Osterhammel), is arousing a different kind of interest than it did during the epoch of imperial Orientalism. The emerging global avant-gardes are developing a way of approaching Asia's vast cultural resources that is changing both the framework and imagination of the arts and guiding the transition from a homogenous to a plural modernity.

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Christoph Asendorf, Europa University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.