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pioneering study of historical developments that have shaped Asia concludes with this volume tracing the impact of ideas and cultures of people on the move across the continent, whether willingly or not.


In the final volume of Asia Inside Out, a stellar interdisciplinary team of scholars considers the migration of peopleand the ideas, practices, and things they brought with themto show the ways in which itinerant groups have transformed their culture and surroundings.
Going beyond time and place, which animated the first two books, this third one looks at human beings on the move.


Human movement from place to place across time reinforces older connections while forging new ones, Erik Harms turns to Vietnam to show that the notion of a homeland as a marked geographic space can remain important even if that space is not fixed in people's lived experience.
Angela Leung traces how much of East Asia was brought into a single medical sphere by traveling practitioners, Seema Alavi shows that the British preoccupation with theIndian Revolt allowed traders to turn the Omani capital into a thriving arms emporium.
James Pickett exposes the darker side of mobility in a netherworld of refugees, political prisoners, and hostages circulating from the southern Russian Empire to the Indian subcontinent.
Other authors trace the impact of movement on religious art, ethnic foods, and sports spectacles,

By stepping outside familiar categories and standard narratives, this remarkable series challenges us to rethink our conception of Asia in complex and nuanced ways.
In her chapter of Asia Inside Out, anthropologist Narges Erami discussed how the object of the Persian rug became valued through Europeans appreciation since theth century.
Through the exhibitions in Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries, the Iranian state continued to promote “timeless” Persian culture with the art of the rug.
During the same time period of these exhibitions, Xiang Biao and Ramadan Ma researched on the new Islamic revival in coastal southeast China which made up another chapter in this book.
Xiang and Ma found that the influx of “Arab” traders, mostly nonChinese Muslims, contributed to the urban landscapes and increased accessibility to mosques and halal food.
The personal details of their informants path toward rediscovering their faith are very illuminating, Yet both chapters do not examine the role of "liberalization" or marketization in mainland China and Vietnam in thes and mids which make such cultural exchange and transactions possible.
Mobility is a classspecific attribute which did not seem to be the center of discussion, especially in Xiang and Ma's piece.
My understanding is that mobility in Chinese urban cities has been heavily policed and regulated by the Hukou system, The authors note the liberalization of religious practices after the Cultural Revolution as an important state policy that allowed for new networks of Islam to form in southeast China, but did not address the cataclysmic shifts during the Open and Reform era and how that revitalized Guangzhous position as mainland Chinas trading port.
Their theory of assemblages should take the statist origins of economic activity and legitimacy into account,
Erami does discuss class on the Iranian side of rug production: class specificity and modalities of production in Persian rugs can appear as a “pollution” to a particular goal of aesthetics.
Certain participants of the Persian rug industry wish to conceal such aspects, At times, names of a given rug designers can be censored for the sake of cultural exchange and sales, Given the importance of namesake and authenticity in the marketing of European luxury brands in the current era, Eramis piece begs the question of the value of authenticity, cultural or otherwise, in the sales Persian rugs.


Alavis analysis of how the Omani successors of Zanzibar and Oman are very useful to our understanding of the multivalence of the Indian Ocean.
For example, Sultan Thuwayni managed to make the case of rebel Khojas ransacking of Aga Khans kitty favorable to his rule.
Alavi also highlighted the AngloFrench rivalry in this region, which has often been underemphasized in other accounts, The French need for slaves increased the prices and drawn nonEuropean

traders to trade in humans rather than ivory, much to the dismay of some Omani rulers.
Alavi notes that Zanzibari inhabitants personal connections with Arab tribal leaders as well as Indian merchants sociopolitical maneuvers are also very important factors for understanding the complexity of this particular history.
Blackness and Arabness in Zanzibar are at times mutually constituted in this era and not always clearcut, but later become a more closely monitored when there is a rise in the nationstateethnicity nexus.

NovEric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University, where he teaches Southeast Asian history, He is the director of Cornells Comparative Muslim Societies Program, the director of Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, and the contributing editor of journal Indonesia.
Tagliacozzo received his B. A. from Haverford College inand his Ph, D. from Yale University in. Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University, where he teaches Southeast Asian history, He is the director of Cornell's Comparative Muslim Societies Program, the director of Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, and the contributing editor of journal Indonesia.
Tagliacozzo received his B. A. from Haverford College inand his Ph, D. from Yale University in. sitelink.