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Tansen Sen is director of the Center for Global Asia and professor of history at NYU Shanghai and Global Network Professor at NYU. His books include Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of India-China Relations, 600–1400.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Circulations of Knowledge
Chapter 2: The Routes, Networks, and Objects of Circulation
Chapter 3: The Imperial Connections
Chapter 4: Pan-Asianism and Renewed Connections
Chapter 5: The Geopolitical Disconnect
Conclusion
Bibliography
This book [is] a timely reminder of the long relationship between these two cultures, and of their generally peaceful concord.
— Week in China
India, China, and the World: A Connected History is a big book with equally large ambitions. . . [it] covers everything from the movement of people, objects, and ideas across the ancient Silk Road up to the formation of the contemporary One Belt, One Road Initiative. Rather than simply depicting the flows between South Asia and China as traveling along a one-way street, the author does an admirable job of demonstrating how those movements were circulatory. . . . This book will make for engaging reading for specialists and general readers who are interested in the longue durée history of exchanges between India and China.
— Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University
A critical and non-judgemental yet stimulating analysis of the relationship between India and China during the ancient, modern, and contemporary periods. It is thoroughly and scintillatingly argumentative. . . . The resources and arguments provided by the author are incisive, thought-provoking, and comprehensive. It is an admirable sampling of sources, events, perceptions, and insights regarding connected histories in the past and present. The book is indeed path-breaking and a must read for researchers and practitioners engaged in historical studies, India-China relations, and international relations.
— China Review International
This book [is] a timely reminder of the long relationship between these two cultures, and of their generally peaceful concord.
— Week in China
Tansen Sen is the most qualified author to write a history of India and China in the world history context. Born to a father of Indian scholar of China and educated in India, China, and the University of Pennsylvania in the us, Tansen Sen is equipped with not only several languages, but also a deep and wide knowledge of China, India, Southeast Asia and world history. This knowledge base enables him to grasp the essence of two thousand years’ communications and interactions of the two gigantic cultural conglomerations.
— China & Asia
Tansen Sen is unquestionably the world’s leading historian of Sino-Indian connections. In this pioneering work, he situates his formidable knowledge within the framework of world history, revealing how central the relationship has been for both Asia and the wider world.
— Prasenjit Duara, Duke University and author of Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern
Tansen Sen has the remarkable knowledge and skills to be considered a historian of both China and India. In this groundbreaking study, his facility with the languages of both cultures enables him to provide a sophisticated history and analysis of their exchanges of products, philosophical and religious views, and scientific ideas. Noting that the relations between the two cultures need to be perceived in a broader context, Sen describes the influences of their interactions on other Asian civilizations. He concludes with an analysis of their relations in the modern world.
— Morris Rossabi, author of Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times
Tansen Sen provides a deeply engaging, wide-ranging, and richly detailed history of the peoples, technologies, ideas, and commodities that have connected China, India, and the wider world from ancient times to the present. Now that China's ‘One Belt One Road’ is all the rage, it is fascinating to learn how these ancient spaces of mobility became assets for contending empires and objects of conflicting national interests that formed a diplomatic scaffolding for transnational politics.
— David Ludden, New York University