2. Mobility Assemblage and the Return of Islam in Southeast China

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Seekers, Sojourners, and Meaningful Worlds in Motion 1
4. 1. Mobility’s Spatial Fix: Finding the Vietnamese “Homeland” from the Outside In 29
5. 2. Mobility Assemblage and the Return of Islam in Southeast China 52
6. 3. Cowry Country: Mobile Space and Imperial Territory 75
7. 4. Persian Rugs in Southeast Asia: Cultural Production and Taste Making in a New Market 101
8. 5. A “South” Imagined and Lived: The Entanglement of Medical Things, Experts, and Identities in Premodern East Asia’s South 122
9. 6. Traveling Manuscripts: Understanding Pilgrimage in Central and Eastern Islamic Lands 146
10. 7. Slaves, Arms, and Political Careering in Nineteenth-Century Oman 179
11. 8. The Darker Side of Mobility: Refugees, Hostages, and Political Prisoners in Persianate Asia 201
12. 9. Deploying Theravada Buddhist Geographies in the Age of Imperialism 224
13. 10. Itinerant Singers: Triangulating the Canton–Hong Kong–Macau Soundscape 244
14. 11. Roast Beef versus Pigs’ Trotters: Knowledge in Transit in the Work of a Chinese Food Evangelist 271
15. 12. The Asian Sportscape: Hubs of Play and Flows of Contention 293
16. Contributors 315
17. Acknowledgments 319
18. Index 321