TY - BOOK AU - Harper,T.N. AU - Amrith,Sunil S. TI - Sites of Asian interaction: ideas, networks and mobility SN - 9781107082083 (hardback) AV - HT147.A2 S58 2014 U1 - 307.76095 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Delhi, India PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Port cities KW - Asia KW - History KW - Cosmopolitanism KW - City and town life KW - Social interaction KW - Social mobility KW - Social networks KW - HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia KW - bisacsh KW - Social conditions KW - Relations KW - Intellectual life KW - Commerce N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction / Tim Harper and Sunil S. Amrith -- Singapore, 1915, and the Birth of the Asian Underground / Tim Harper -- Living in the Material World : Cosmopolitanism and Trade in Early Twentieth Century Ladakh / Jacqueline H. Fewkes -- Nation, Race, and Language : Discussing Transnational Identities in Colonial Singapore, circa 1930 / Chua Ai Lin -- Intimate Interactions : Eurasian Family Histories in Colonial Penang / Kirsty Walker -- Citing as a Site : Translation and Circulation in Muslim South and Southeast Asia / Ronit Ricci -- Popular Sites of Prayer, Transoceanic Migration, and Cultural Diversity : Exploring the significance of keramat in Southeast Asia / Sumit K. Mandal -- Connecting People : A Central Asian Sufi network in turn-of-the-century Istanbul / Lale Can -- "Enough of the Great Napoleons!" : Raja Mahendra Pratap's Pan-Asian projects (1929-1939) / Carolien Stolte -- Chinatowns and Borderlands : Inter-Asian Encounters in the Diaspora / Evelyn Hu-Dehart -- Creating Spaces for Asian Interaction through the Anti-Globalisation Campaigns in the Region / Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem N2 - "Develops the rich historical literature on port cities across Asia, the quintessential sites of Asian cosmopolitanism, as well as more recent work on the 'moving metropolises' and 'mobile cities' of contemporary Asia"--Provided by publisher UR - http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/82083/cover/9781107082083.jpg ER -