ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PROLOGUE / Vishakha N. Desai -- ME AND MY TROUSERS / Foreword by David Elliott -- Part 1 HISTORIES. The Slippered Pantaloon -- Going Global: Alterity and Other Things at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford -- From Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic: Modernity at a Time of Change -- Tokyo-Berlin: A Continuing Dialogue from Empire to Democracy -- Bye Bye Kitty!!!...: Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art -- Heaven and Earth: Contemporary Art from the Center of Asia -- Tibet: What If...? Pitfalls of Identity in a Slippery Age -- The Best of Times, The Worst of Times Contemporary Art along the Post-Soviet Silk Road Part 2 STORIES. Who is Wearing the Trousers? -- KG Subramanyan: An Indian in Oxford -- Jitish Kallat: Fugitive Moments of an Unacceptable Present -- Rashid Rana: The Machinery of Truth -- Naiza Khan: Image and Revelation -- Xu Bing: Tradition, Representation and Language -- Ai Weiwei: The Seeds of Time or the Sands of the Desert? -- Song Dong: "Art, My Last Hope." -- Sun Yuan & Peng Yu: "Somewhere Beyond Rape and Adultery" -- Xu Zhen: Chaos and Rectitude in the Face of History -- Makoto Aida: The Surface of Things -- Miwa Yanagi: The Four Ages of Woman -- Chiharu Shiota: Time and Distance, Absence and Silence -- Tomoko Kashiki: A Floating World -- Heri Dono's Paradox: The Arrow or the Kris? -- Chatchai Puipia's Last Masque: A Funerary Oration -- Rodel Tapaya: "The One You Feed" -- Choi Jeong Hwa: Gangbuk Style -- Yeesookyung: Reflections on a Korean Urn Part 3 MIGRATIONS. A Short History Of The Trouser -- Cai Guo-Qiang: Earth, Air and Fire -- Zeng Xiaojun: Labyrinths -- Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Faces of Infinity -- Leiko Ikemura: The House Beyond the Horizon -- Nezaket Ekici: The World in a House -- Rasheed Araeen: The Dancer and the Flame -- Bharti Kher: Icebergs in India, Snowballs in Hell -- EPILOGUE -- INDEX.
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