Asia Inside Out: Changing Times

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 dynamic networks that have linked peoples from Japan to Yemen over the past five centuries. Each author examines a single year or decade that redefined Asia.

Table of Contents:
Contents 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 A. 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 Off shore 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

About the Author :
Tagliacozzo Eric : Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University.Siu Helen F. : Helen F. Siu is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University.Perdue Peter C. : Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History at Yale University.Perdue Peter C. : Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History at Yale University.Siu Helen F. : Helen F. Siu is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University.Tagliacozzo Eric : Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University.Hellyer Robert I. : Robert I. Hellyer is Assistant Professor of History at Wake Forest University.

Review :
A wonderfully rich, provocative, and timely collection. By illuminating moments of transformation not typically identified as historical turning points, these essays highlight alternative temporalities of Asian social, cultural, and political life. But they don't stop there. Each essay also unsettles the spatial boundaries of Asia by showcasing consequential transnational networks and interactions. As a whole, this book offers an important takeaway for all area specialists: if you connect the dots of lesser known, border crossing phenomena, your region may be revealed in wholly new outlines. -- Ajantha Subramanian, Harvard University Historians have long been discussing the limitations of Eurocentric, nationalistic, or civilizational approaches to the past and complex present of Asian societies. Asia Inside Out: Changing Times illustrates the achievements of this scholarship of the past decades, with essays demonstrating how we can understand the cosmopolitan experiences of inter-Asian connections in the early modern and modern periods. This book should be essential reading on global Asia. -- Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill