Introduction: Spatial Assemblages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Spatial Assemblages 1
4. 1. Placing the “Chinese Pirates” of the Gulf of Tongking at the End of the Eighteenth Century 31
5. 2. The Original Translocal Society: Making Chaolian from Land and Sea 64
6. 3. Spatial Moments: Chittagong in Four Scenes 98
7. 4. War and Charisma: Horses and Elephants in the Indian Ocean Economy 128
8. 5. Homemaking as Placemaking: Women in Elite Households in Early Modern Japan and Late Imperial China 169
9. 6. Crossing Borders in Imperial China 195
10. 7. Kashmiri Merchants and Qing Intelligence Networks in the Himalayas: The Ahmed Ali Case of 1830 219
11. 8. Circulations via Tangyan, a Town in the Northern Shan State of Burma 243
12. 9. Turning Space into Place: British India and the Invention of Iraq 271
13. 10. Marriage and the Management of Place in Southern Arabia 302
14. 11. Romanization without Rome: China’s Latin New Script and Soviet Central Asia 321
15. 12. Riding the Wave: Korea’s Economic Growth and Asia in the Modern Development Era 354
16. 13. The Circulation of Korean Pop: Soft Power and Inter-Asian Conviviality 381
17. Contributors 401
18. Acknowledgments 405
19. Index 407