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Asia Inside Out: Changing Times. Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu and Peter C. Perdue. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 336. ISBN 10: 0674598504; ISBN 13: 978-0674598508.

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Asia Inside Out: Changing Times. Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu and Peter C. Perdue. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 336. ISBN 10: 0674598504; ISBN 13: 978-0674598508.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2016

Michael Facius*
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Freie Universität Berlin E-mail michael.facius@fu-berlin.de

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2 See, among many others, Sakai, Naoki, “‘You Asians’: On the Historical Role of the West and Asia Binary,” South Atlantic Quarterly 99:4 (2000), pp. 789817CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For a more optimistic view about the political value of “Asia” see Kuan-Hsing Chen, Asia as Method. Toward Deimperialization (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010).

3 See, e.g., Masao Miyoshi and Harry Harootunian, eds., Learning Places. The Afterlife of Area Studies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002).

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5 See Sven Saaler and Christopher W. A. Szpilman, eds., Pan-Asianism. A Documentary History, 2 vols. (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012).

6 Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels. Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800–1830, 2 vols. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003–9).

7 This revival has been explained by John Darwin in a similarly broad Eurasian perspective as the effect of an imperial pull following the breakup of the Timurid empire. See John Darwin, After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400–2000 (London: Penguin Books, 2008).

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10 S. Frederick Starr, Lost Enlightenment. Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013) makes a forceful case for the inclusion of Central Asia around 1000 into any narratives about Asian globalization.

11 See, e.g., David Porter, ed., Comparative Early Modernities, 1100–1800 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) or R. Bin Wong, “Regions and Global History,” in Writing the History of the Global, ed. Maxine Berg (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 83–105.

12 Charles H. Parker, Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 3.

13 On early modern Iran and its regional constellations see also the recent edited volume Willem Floor and Edmund Herzig, eds., Iran and the World in the Safavid Age (London: I. B. Tauris, 2012).

14 Matt K. Matsuda, Pacific Worlds. A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012); Steinberg, Philip and Peters, Kimberley, “Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 33 (2015), pp. 247–64CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

15 Jiang Wu, Leaving for the Rising Sun. Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).