Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-378) and index.
Contents:
A wooden skeleton emerges in the knowledge hub of Edo Japan / Chang Che-chia. Trans-Eurasian routes of exchange: a brief historical overview / Tansen Sen and Pamela H. Smith -- The silk roads as a model for exploring Eurasian transmissions of medical knowledge: views from the Tibetan medical manuscripts of Dunhuang / Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim -- 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 -- Curative commodities betwee Europe and Southeast Asia, 1500-1700 / Tara Alberts -- Translating the art of tea: naturalizing Chinese savoir faire in British Assam / Francesca Bray -- The itinerary of Hing/Awei/Asafetida across Eurasia, 400-1800 / Angela Ki Che Leung and Ming Chen -- Smoke and silkwoms: itineraries of material complexes across Eurasia / Pamela H. Smith, Joslyn DeVinney, Sasha Grafit, and Xiaomeng Liu -- Itineraries of images: agents of integration in the Buddhist cosmoplis / Tansen Sen -- Itineraries of inkstones in early modern China / Dorothy Ko -- Convergences in and around Bursa: Sufism, alchemy, iatrochemistry in Turkey, 1500-1750 / Feza Günergun -- A wooden skeleton emerges in the knowledge hub of Edo Japan / Chang Che-chia.
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