Asia Inside Out : Changing Times / Eric Tagliacozzo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tagliacozzo, Eric, Editor.

Series:

Asia Inside Out Series ; v.1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asia--History.

Asia.

Asia--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial, and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, Asia Inside Out: Changing Times brings into focus the diverse networks and dynamic developments that have linked peoples from Japan to Yemen over the past five centuries. Each author examines an unnoticed moment—a single year or decade—that redefined Asia in some important way. Heidi Walcher explores the founding of the Safavid dynasty in the crucial battle of 1501, while Peter C. Perdue investigates New World silver’s role in Sino-Portuguese and Sino-Mongolian relations after 1557. Victor Lieberman synthesizes imperial changes in Russia, Burma, Japan, and North India in the seventeenth century, Charles Wheeler focuses on Zen Buddhism in Vietnam to 1683, and Kerry Ward looks at trade in Pondicherry, India, in 1745. Nancy Um traces coffee exports from Yemen in 1636 and 1726, and Robert Hellyer follows tea exports from Japan to global markets in 1874. Anand Yang analyzes the diary of an Indian soldier who fought in China in 1900, and Eric Tagliacozzo portrays the fragility of Dutch colonialism in 1910. Andrew Willford delineates the erosion of cosmopolitan Bangalore in the mid-twentieth century, and Naomi Hosoda relates the problems faced by Filipino workers in Dubai in the twenty-first. Moving beyond traditional demarcations such as West, East, South, and Southeast Asia, this interdisciplinary study underscores the fluidity and contingency of trans-Asian social, cultural, economic, and political interactions. It also provides an analytically nuanced and empirically rich understanding of the legacies of Asian globalization.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Structuring Moments in Asian Connections

1501 in Tabriz: From Tribal Takeover to Imperial Trading Circuit? Heidi A. Walcher

1555: Four Imperial Revivals

1557: A Year of Some Significance

1636 and 1726: Yemen after the First Ottoman Era

1683: An Off shore Perspective on Vietnamese Zen

1745: Ebbs and Flows in the Indian Ocean

1874: Tea and Japan’s New Trading Regime Robert Hellyer

China and India Are One: A Subaltern’s Vision of “Hindu China” during the Boxer Expedition of 1900–1901

Before the Gangrene Set In: Th e Dutch East Indies in 1910

1956: Bangalore’s Cosmpolitan Pasts and Monocultural Futures?

2008: “Open City” and a New Wave of Filipino Migration to the Middle East

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

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ISBN:

0-674-96694-5

0-674-73620-6

OCLC:

897599041