The essays in this volume explore crucial intellectual and cultural exchanges between Asia and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Examining the increased mobility of people and information, scientific advances, global crises, and the unravelling of empires, Eurasian Encounters demonstrates that this time period saw an unprecedented increase in a transnational flow of politically and socially influential ideas. Together, the contributors show how the two ends of Eurasia interacted in artistic, academic, and religious spheres using new international and cosmopolitan approaches.

Dr. Carolien Stolte is an assistant professor of History at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Dr. Yoshiyuki Kikuchi is an associate professor of Science, Technology and Society (STS) at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai) in Hayama, Japan.

1 Eurasian Encounters: Cross-Border Intellectual and Cultural Exchange, 1900-1950Carolien Stolte and Yoshiyuki KikuchiPart I Artistic Spaces2 The Museum at Aundh: Reflecting on Citizenship and the Art Museum in the ColonyDeepti Mulgund3 Exhibiting the Nation: Cultural Flows, Transnational Exchanges, and the Development of Museums in Japan and China, 1900-1950Shuli Wang4 Parallel Tracks: Pan Yuliang and Amrita Sher-Gil in ParisSonal Khullar5 Bauhaus and Tea CeremonyHelena CapkováPart II Missions and Education6 Schooling a Missionary in Early Twentieth-Century IndiaIndrani Chatterjee7 The Catholic Church in China during the Republican PeriodCindy Yik-yi ChuPart III Shared Trajectories, New Subjectivities 8 Indigenizing Cosmopolitanism: Shifting Metropolitan Subjectivities in Twentieth-Century ColomboAnoma Pieris9 Fighting for the Soviet Empire: War Propaganda and Localized Discourses on Soviet Patriotism in Uzbekistan during the Second World WarBoram Shin10 Shared Origins, Shared Outcomes? Transcultural Trajectories of Germany and Japan during the Asia-Pacific WarAndrea Germer