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Asia Inside Out, 2 (Hardcover)
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Asia Inside Out, 2 (Hardcover)
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Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have historically
linked regions of the world's largest continent, stretching from
Japan and Korea to the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the
Middle East. Connected Places, the second installment in this
pioneering three-volume survey, highlights the transregional flows
of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political
boundaries-sea routes, delta ecologies, and mountain passes, ports
and oasis towns, imperial capitals and postmodern cities. It
challenges the conventional idea that defines geopolitical regions
as land-based, state-centered, and possessing linear histories.
Exploring themes of maritime connections, mobile landscapes, and
spatial movements, the authors examine significant sites of linkage
and disjuncture from the early modern period to the present.
Readers discover how eighteenth-century pirates shaped the
interregional networks of Vietnam's Tonkin Gulf, how Kashmiri
merchants provided intelligence of remote Himalayan territories to
competing empires, and how for centuries a vibrant trade in horses
and elephants fueled the Indian Ocean economy. Other topics
investigated include cultural formations in the Pearl River delta,
global trade in Chittagong's transformation, gendered homemaking
among mobile Samurai families, border zones in Qing China and
contemporary Burma, colonial spaces linking India and Mesopotamia,
transnational marriages in Oman's immigrant populations, new
cultural spaces in Korean pop, and the unexpected adoption of the
Latin script by ethnically Chinese Muslims in Central Asia.
Connected Places shows the constant fluctuations over many
centuries in the making of Asian territories and illustrates the
confluence of factors in the historical construction of place and
space.
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