内容简介

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.

作品目录

Map: Mapping Our Asian Connections
Introduction: Structuring Moments in Asian Connections [Peter C. Perdue, Helen F. Siu, and Eric Tagliacozzo]
1. 1501 in Tabriz: From Tribal Takeover to Imperial Trading Circuit? [Heidi Walcher]
2. 1555: Four Imperial Revivals [Victor Lieberman]
3. 1557: A Year of Some Significance [Peter C. Perdue]
4. 1636 and 1726: Yemen after the First Ottoman Era [Nancy Um]
5. 1683: An Offshore Perspective on Vietnamese Zen [Charles J. Wheeler]
6. 1745: Ebbs and Flows in the Indian Ocean [Kerry Ward]
7. 1874: Tea and Japan’s New Trading Regime [Robert Hellyer]
8. China and India Are One: A Subaltern’s Vision of “Hindu China” during the Boxer Expedition of 1900–1901 [Anand A. Yang]
9. Before the Gangrene Set In: The Dutch East Indies in 1910 [Eric Tagliacozzo]
10. 1956: Bangalore’s Cosmpolitan Pasts and Monocultural Futures? [Andrew Willford]
11. 2008: Open City and a New Wave of Filipino Migration to the Middle East [Naomi Hosoda]
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index
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作者简介

Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University.

Helen F. Siu is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University.

Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History at Yale University.