Contents
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Overview
Chapter 1. Nodes of Convergence, Material Complexes, and Entangled Itineraries \
Pamela H. Smith
Chapter 2. Trans-Eurasian Routes of Exchange: A Brief Historical Overview \ Tansen Sen and Pamela H. Smith
Part 2. Entangled Itineraries: Modes of Approach
Chapter 3. The Silk Roads as a Model for Exploring Eurasianm Transmissions of Medical Knowledge: Views from the Tibetan Medical Manuscripts of Dunhuang \ Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Chapter 4. Things (Wu) and Their Transformations (Zaowu) in the Late Ming Dynasty: Song Yingxing's and Huang Cheng's Approaches to Mobilizing Craft Knowledge \ Dagmar Schäfer
Chapter 5. Curative Commodities between Europe and Southeast Asia, 1500-1700 \
Tara Alberts
Chapter 6. Translating the Art of Tea: Naturalizing Chinese Savoir Faire in British Assam \ Francesca Bray
Part 3. Material Complexes in Motion
Chapter 7. The Itinerary of Hing/Awei/Asafetida across Eurasia, 400-1800 \ Angela Ki Che Leung and Ming Chen
Chapter 8. Smoke and Silkworms: Itineraries of Material Complexes across Eurasia
\ Pamela H. Smith, Joslyn DeVinney, Sasha Grafit, and Xiaomeng Liu
Chapter 9. Itineraries of Images: Agents of Integration in the Buddhist Cosmopolis \
Tansen Sen
Chapter 10. Itineraries of Inkstones in Early Modern China \
Dorothy Ko
Part 4. Convergences and the Emergence of New Objects of Knowledge
Chapter 11. Convergences in and around Bursa: Sufism, Alchemy, Iatrochemistry in Turkey, 1500-1750 \
Feza Günergun
Chapter 12. A Wooden Skeleton Emerges in the Knowledge Hub of Edo Japan \
Chang Che-chia
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index