Cover illustration from Pacific Strife, Kees van Dijk (Amsterdam University Press, 2015). Illustration from supplement to Le Petit Journal, 16th January 1898.
Kevin Hewison, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Hagen Koo, University of Hawaii, USA Loraine Kennedy, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France Guobin Yang, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Asia has a long history of transnational linkages with other parts of the world. Yet the contribution of Asian knowledge, values, and practices in the making of the modern world has largely been overlooked until recent years. The rise of Asia is often viewed as a challenge to the existing world order. Such a bifurcated view overlooks the fact that the global order has been shaped by Asian experiences as much as the global formation has shaped Asia. The Global Asia Series takes this understanding as the point of departure. It addresses contemporary issues related to transnational interactions within the Asian region, as well as Asia’s projection into the world through the movement of goods, people, ideas, knowledge, ideologies, and so forth. The series aims to publish timely and well-researched books that will have the cumulative effect of developing new perspectives and theories about global Asia.
