Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Structuring Moments in Asian Connections 1
4. 1501 in Tabriz: From Tribal Takeover to Imperial Trading Circuit? Heidi A. Walcher 23
5. 1555: Four Imperial Revivals 64
6. 1557: A Year of Some Significance 90
7. 1636 and 1726: Yemen after the First Ottoman Era 112
8. 1683: An Off shore Perspective on Vietnamese Zen 135
9. 1745: Ebbs and Flows in the Indian Ocean 163
10. 1874: Tea and Japan’s New Trading Regime Robert Hellyer 186
11. China and India Are One: A Subaltern’s Vision of “Hindu China” during the Boxer Expedition of 1900–1901 207
12. Before the Gangrene Set In: Th e Dutch East Indies in 1910 226
13. 1956: Bangalore’s Cosmpolitan Pasts and Monocultural Futures? 250
14. 2008: “Open City” and a New Wave of Filipino Migration to the Middle East 281
15. Contributors 307
16. Acknowledgments 313
17. Index 315