Asia Inside Out - Itinerant People

In the final volume of Asia Inside Out, a stellar interdisciplinary team of scholars shows the ways that itinerant groups criss-crossing the continent 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.

About the author

Eric Tagliacozzo is the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University and the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865–1915, winner of the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies.Helen F. Siu is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and the author of Tracing China: A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey. She established the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong to promote interregional research and was its honorary director for ten years.Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History at Yale University and the author of China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (HUP), awarded the Joseph Levenson Book Prize from the Association of Asian Studies.Seema Alavi is Professor of History at the University of Delhi.Emma J. Teng is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Summary

In the final volume of Asia Inside Out, a stellar interdisciplinary team of scholars shows the ways that itinerant groups criss-crossing the continent 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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter C. Perdue, Helen F. Siu, Eric Tagliacozzo, Eric Siu Tagliacozzo
• Assisted by: Peter C Perdue (Editor), Peter C. Perdue (Editor), Perdue Peter C. (Editor), Helen F Siu (Editor), Helen F. Siu (Editor), Siu Helen F. (Editor), Eric Tagliacozzo (Editor), Tagliacozzo Eric (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780674987630
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98763-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Asia, HISTORY / Asia / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Refugees, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Migration, immigration & emigration, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, Regional / International studies, Asian History, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum