Asia Inside Out: Connected Places

Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have linked regions of the world’s largest continent. Connected Places, the second of three volumes, highlights the flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political boundaries and illustrates the confluence of factors in the historical construction of place and space.

Table of Contents:
Contents Introduction: Spatial Assemblages / Helen F. Siu, Eric Tagliacozzo, and Peter C. Perdue 1. Placing the “Chinese Pirates” of the Gulf of Tongking at the End of the Eighteenth Century / Charles Wheeler 2. The Original Translocal Society: Making Chaolian from Land and Sea / Helen F. Siu and Liu Zhiwei 3. Spatial Moments: Chittagong in Four Scenes / Willem van Schendel 4. War and Charisma: Horses and Elephants in the Indian Ocean Economy / Alan Mikhail 5. Homemaking as Placemaking: Women in Elite Households in Early Modern Japan and Late Imperial China / Marcia Yonemoto 6. Crossing Borders in Imperial China / Peter C. Perdue 7. Kashmiri Merchants and Qing Intelligence Networks in the Himalayas: The Ahmed Ali Case of 1830 / Matthew W. Mosca 8. Circulations via Tangyan, a Town in the Northern Shan State of Burma / Wen-Chin Chang 9. Turning Space into Place: British India and the Invention of Iraq / Priya Satia 10. Marriage and the Management of Place in Southern Arabia / Mandana E. Limbert 11. Romanization without Rome: China’s Latin New Script and Soviet Central Asia /Jing Tsu 12. Riding the Wave: Korea’s Economic Growth and Asia in the Modern Development Era / Park Bun-Soon 13. The Circulation of Korean Pop: Soft Power and Inter-Asian Conviviality / Whang Soon-Hee Contributors Acknowledgments Index

About the Author :
TagliacozzoEric: Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University.SiuHelen F.: Helen F. Siu is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University.PerduePeter C.: Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History at Yale University.

Review :
Asia Inside Out: Connected Places makes you think about borders, networks, flows, identities, and historical epochs. The volume's essays range across Asia, across centuries, across types of polity, scales of organization, and modes of expression--and find striking resonance where few would expect to find them. Both scholars interested in revitalizing area studies and those who reject such approaches will be productively challenged by this book. -- Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago This compelling volume provides a vivid and theoretically accomplished portrait of Asian connections, fusions, and landscapes of mobility in historic and recent times. The contributions marshal strong case studies that discuss religion, language, art, commerce, human-animal relations, domesticity, and the political exigencies and outcomes of modern empires to reveal the making of places in Asian space across land and sea. Part of an impressive set of books on inter-Asian connections, it invites immediate and sustained attention from scholars and students across disciplines; it is highly readable and beautifully illustrated. -- K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University These provocative essays point the way toward reimagining world history from the inside out. Training their sights on interstitial people and places, the contributors collectively shed light on locality formation at a dozen sites across Asia. Carefully chosen maps and photographs reinforce the case-study approach by anchoring theory firmly to place, illuminating flashpoints where livelihood, meaning, and power collide. A stellar collection that deserves a wide readership. -- Kären Wigen, Stanford University This volume asks readers to rethink not only how they reconsider the spatial definition of Asia but also space and place as concepts...Students of Asia will discover much that is pleasantly counterintuitive, such as the boom in Korean popular culture that has many Vietnamese brides wanting to wear traditional Korean dress for their wedding photos. A wonderfully interdisciplinary resource. -- M. J. Wert Choice