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Part front matter for Part 7 Historical Global and the Asian Postmodern
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Published:November 2016
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The 21st century is characterized by an Asian renaissance marked by several major historical trends. In an edited volume to draw attention to a historically interconnected Asia, my colleagues and I show that “at various agentive moments, the likes of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta (Dunn 1986/2005) had churned a cultural kaleidoscope that spanned continents. Over land or sea, the terrain they traversed had refused to be contained within the boundaries of empires or nation-states (Lewis and Wigen 1997, Waley-Cohen 1999, Hansen 2012). Places linked by these travelers’ routes developed unique institutions for trade, multi-ethnic settlements, religious traditions and power play. What the historical global and the Asian postmodern share, in conceptual and empirical terms, are “space[s] of flows” (Castells 1996). They range from port cities to oasis towns, crucial meeting points along diverse circulation paths (Tagliacozzo and Chang 2011). From the late 20th century on, they have been hubs of global finance, consumption and services (Sassen 2001). These spaces are arenas for intimate social encounters and deep cultural divisions as much as they shape contractual deals forged digitally in split seconds. Rather than seeing them as bounded units with static configurations, they are fluid “urban assemblages” made significant and meaningful by conscious human actions at crucial historical junctures (Farias and Bender 2009, pp. 303–23; Tagliacozzo, Siu, and Perdue 2015b, pp. 1–2).
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