{"title":"Tamara T Chin","description":"\u003cp\u003eTamara T Chin offers insightful explorations into the intricate histories and cultural exchanges that have shaped the world, with a particular focus on trade and diplomacy. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eThe Silk Road Idea\u003c\/em\u003e, illuminate the connections and ideas that traversed vast empires and influenced global development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect well-researched narratives that blend historical analysis with a keen understanding of political and military contexts. Chin’s writing invites reflection on the enduring impact of historical networks and the ways in which they continue to resonate today.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-silk-road-idea-by-tamara-t-chin-9780226852584","title":"The Silk Road Idea","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTraces the rise and fall of a set of modern disciplinary fields devoted to premodern historical contact that drew on intellectual currents across and beyond China and Europe.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Silk Road Idea\u003c\/em\u003e, Tamara T. Chin examines the rise of interest in \"the connected past\" and its impact on key disciplines, focusing on the period from 1870 to 1970. Against the predominance of national studies, Chin argues that historical contact gradually came to be regarded as an object of inquiry over a century spanning imperialism, decolonization, and the Cold War. Interest in connected histories emerged from all corners: the colonialist and the anticolonial; the capitalist and the communist; the antiquarian and the activist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the ascent of academic specialization, Chin contends, geography, history, philology, and linguistics domesticated contact through distinct frameworks and units of analysis, making it into something geographers mapped, historians narrated, philologists read, and linguists heard. But this also brought disruption. To historically connect Afro-Eurasia, disciplinary paradigms were questioned, and, in some cases, transformed. Intellectual debates in East Asia and Europe became entangled with those in South Asia and East Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChin uses the concept of the \"Silk Road\" to capture the epistemological challenge of including China in a globally connected past, from the pursuit of civilizational origins to that of entangled empires. \u003cem\u003eThe Silk Road Idea\u003c\/em\u003e revisits the stakes of premodern contact for the histories of colonialism, capitalism, and knowledge, showing how the connecting and reconfiguring of the modern world enabled and was enabled by a reimagination of antiquity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67808140263660,"sku":"9780226852584","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226852584-the-silk-road-idea-1.jpg?v=1792527765"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/tamara-t-chin.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}