A passage to Asia : 25 centuries of exchange between Asia and Europe / conceived by Jan Van Alphen ; with contributions by Richard L. Smith [and others].

"This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition 'A Passage to Asia. 25 Centuries of Exchange between Asia and Europe' Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, 25 June 2010-10 October 2010"--Colophon.

Summary in Dutch and French.

Includes bibliographical references.

The all-water route / Richard L. Smith -- Trade with the West in the late prehistory of Southeast Asia and the issue of "indianization" / Ian C. Glover -- Pejeng bronze drums in Bali and Java : the rise of a local tradition at a crossroads between trade routes / Ambra Calò -- Trading gold in Early Asia / Anna Bennett -- Nomads and the Chinese : the making of the Silk Road in Asia / Richard L. Smith -- The roots and influence of hellenism in Asia at the beginning of the Common Era / Jan Van Alphen -- The Igorots of the Northern Philippines : identity and anthropological perspectives / Ramon N. Villegas -- The spread of the great Asian religions -- until the first millennium CE / Shirley Day -- Islamic art of Southeast Asia / James Bennett -- Europeans and Christianity / Ambeth R. Ocampo, Maria Helena Mendes Pinto, Mariano Jose Dias -- The rise and decline of the Indian textile trade / David A. Henkel -- Maritime and underwater archaeology in the Philippines / Eusebio Z. Dizon, Wilfredo P. Ronquillo.

Foreword / Lorenz Hurni -- Preface : what is a map? / Valerie Hansen -- Introduction / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony -- Traces of the Silk Road in Han-Dynasty iconography : questions and hypotheses / Nicolas Zufferey -- Visualizing pilgrimage and mapping experience : Mount Wutai on the Silk Road / Natasha Heller -- The mapping of sacred space : images of Buddhist cosmographies in medieval China / Dorothy C. Wong -- Lost in translation : gridded plans and maps along the Silk Road / Jonathan M. Bloom -- Square horoscope diagrams in Middle Eastern astrology and Chinese cosmological diagrams : were these designs transmitted through the Silk Road? / Johannes Thomann -- The intrusion of East Asian imagery in thirteenth-century Armenia : political and cultural exchange along the Silk Road / Dickran Kouymjian -- Comparing al-Kāshgharī's map to his text : on the visual language, purpose, and transmission of Arabic-Islamic maps / Andreas Kaplony -- The Book of curiosities : a medieval Islamic view of the East / Yossef Rapoport -- Celestial maps and illustrations in Arabic-Islamic astronomy / Paul Kunitzsch -- Revisiting Catalan portolan charts : do they contain elements of Asian provenance? / Sonja Brentjes -- Conclusion / Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony -- Appendix. List of geographical nomenclature in al-Kāshgharī's text and map / Andreas Kaplony.

Covers the diffusion and transmission of geographical knowledge that occurred at critical junctures in the long history of the Silk Road. In retracing the steps of four major circuits across the many civilizations that shared the Silk Road, this work traces the ways in which maps and images surmounted spatial, historical and cultural divisions.

Available online via Gleeson Library.
Local access dig.pdf. [Foret-Silk Road.pdf]

"This book examines the connected histories of Spain, China and Japan as they emerged and developed following the foundation of Manila as capital of the Spanish Philippines in 1571. Cross-cultural encounters not only shaped Manila's development as a "Eurasian" port city, but also had profound political, economic, and social ramifications for the three pre-modern states involved. This becomes obvious when looking into the diverse nature of long-distance trade, including trans-Pacific silver-for-silks bargaining, direct Sino-Japanese exchange, and provisions trade. In order not to overlook the role of human beings involved in proto-global struggles for power and foreign trade control, this volume combines a systematic comparison with a focus on different actors and their agency. The author offers an example of empirical global history based on multilingual primary source research and a critical evaluation of different historiographical traditions. Integrating Manila into world history helps in revising many long held misconceptions by replacing them with a more balanced, multi-faceted view"--Back cover.

I. The setting -- Introduction -- 1. The comparative framework -- II. Cross-cultural encounters in the Philippines -- 2. The foundations of a global stage -- 3. The trilogy of triangular trade -- III. Zooming out: local, central, and global connections -- 4. Triangular foreign relations -- 5. Local and central dualism -- 6. Local-central tensions -- IV. Zooming in: early modern Manila and regional globalisation -- 7. Manila as port city -- 8. Actors and agency -- Conclusion.

Local access dig.pdf. [Tremml-Manila.pdf]