...Hasan H. Karrar Abstract This article asks, (1) Why did Afiyatabad, a nondescript bazaar along the Pakistan-China border, emerge along an uninhabited stretch of the Karakoram highway?, and (2) How did Afiyatabad adapt—through bazaar infrastructure, local capital investment, and labor migration...

...Aaron Glasserman Abstract In Western discourse today the charge that Islam is “not just a religion” but a comprehensive social system is leveled to cast doubt over Muslims' ability to integrate into a political community. In the People's Republic of China, this understanding of Islam has served...

...Kwee Hui Kian © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Pockets of Empire: Integrating the Studies on Social Organizations in Southeast China and Southeast Asia...

...Max Ajl Abstract This article considers the influence of Maoist China on Tunisian development theory in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The shadow—or brilliant light—of the Chinese experience was evident in Tunisia by the late 1950s, where wide-scale agrarian reform within the People's Republic...

...Lydia H. Liu Are the humanities in trouble in China and Taiwan, such as we witness elsewhere in the world? In her brief commentary, Lydia H. Liu reflects on the contributions by Wang Hui and Fan-sen Wang, who offer illuminating analyses of the state of the humanities in contemporary China...

...Wang Hui Wang Hui's article, which is part of the author's larger project on the multiple origins of the Chinese humanities, examines the impact of the modern Western education system on disciplinary divisions in China. The article looks specifically at the development of humanities in China after...

...David N. Lorenzen Duke University Press 2007 Gentile Religion in South India, China, and Tibet: Studies by Three Jesuit Missionaries David N. Lorenzen efore...

... known of the bulk the form that texts These Turfan. near and in places cult various in and cave Dunhuang the in mostly territory, Chinese the in discovered texts who deciphered Sogdian Iranologists Grenet Frantz Hinduism and Manichaeism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, China...

...Kaveh Louis Hemmat The Khatay'namah , or Book of China , a description of Chinese government and society in the mid-Ming period, written by a Central Asian merchant and presented to the Ottoman court in 1516, is evidence that the advent of more rationalized, centralized, and bureaucratic forms...

...John Chen Abstract Muslim leaders in China experienced political and social fracture and intellectual reorientation as a result of the Chinese Civil War (1945–49) and the early Cold War. Influential Chinese Muslim and Uyghur imams and officials who were once allies and friends found themselves...

... itr n h oiiso ainlUnity National of Politics the and History Edge: China’s at Mongols...

...Gloria Waite The Star Raft: China's Encounter with Africa by Philip Snow, (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press) 1988, 250 pages, including Index, paperback. Copyright 1990: South Asia Bulletin 1989 South Asia Bulletin, volume 9 number 2, 1989. coastal East Africa and parts...

...John T. Chen From 1938 to 1947, a Chinese Muslim scholar named Muhammad Tawāḍuʿ Pang (known in China as Pang Shiqian) lived and studied at al-Azhar, Cairo’s famed center of Islamic learning. During his time in Egypt, he produced his Arabic-language magnum opus, China and Islam , published...

...Jenny Rose This article provides a nuanced look at an eastern Iranian people whose contribution to both the material and ideological culture of the “Silk Road” is just beginning to come to light. The centrality of Sogdian involvement in trade with both China and India is evidenced from recently...

...Mary E. John This essay engages with the text The Birth of Chinese Feminism, which centers primarily on the writings of He-Yin Zhen, one of the earliest Chinese feminists, produced at the turn of the twentieth century and translated into English for the first time. He-Yin offered China...

... environments connecting Europe, Africa, India, and China since prehistoric times. Indian Ocean ports grew in number, size, wealth, and permanence over the centuries and anchored the rise of seaborne empires connecting Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Modernity traveled among industrial port cities along...

..., and the ocean intensified at these edge spaces. Without careful attention to the recomposition of this relationship over the twentieth century, it is difficult to make sense of the current geopolitical consolidation between India and China in the Indian Ocean. From coasts, brackish backwaters, and dynamic...

...Figure 3. Delegation to China with Zhou En-lai and Geshe Sherab Gyatso. Nava Nalanda Mahavihara Archives. ...