Eurasian Encounters

The essays in this volume explore crucial intellectual and cultural exchanges between Asia and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Examining the increased mobility of people and information, scientific advances, global crises, and the unravelling of empires, Eurasian Encounters demonstrates that this time period saw an unprecedented increase in a transnational flow of politically and socially influential ideas. Together, the contributors show how the two ends of Eurasia interacted in artistic, academic, and religious spheres using new international and cosmopolitan approaches.

Carolien Stolte is Senior Lecturer at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the international history of South Asia. She co-led, with Su-Lin Lewis, the AHRC Research Network "Afro-Asian Networks in the Early Cold War. Dr. Yoshiyuki Kikuchi is an associate professor of Science, Technology and Society (STS) at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai) in Hayama, Japan.

1 Eurasian Encounters: Cross-Border Intellectual and Cultural Exchange, 1900-1950 Carolien Stolte and Yoshiyuki Kikuchi Part I Artistic Spaces 2 The Museum at Aundh: Reflecting on Citizenship and the Art Museum in the Colony Deepti Mulgund 3 Exhibiting the Nation: Cultural Flows, Transnational Exchanges, and the Development of Museums in Japan and China, 1900-1950 Shuli Wang 4 Parallel Tracks: Pan Yuliang and Amrita Sher-Gil in Paris Sonal Khullar 5 Bauhaus and Tea Ceremony Helena Capková Part II Missions and Education 6 Schooling a Missionary in Early Twentieth-Century India Indrani Chatterjee 7 The Catholic Church in China during the Republican Period Cindy Yik-yi Chu Part III Shared Trajectories, New Subjectivities 8 Indigenizing Cosmopolitanism: Shifting Metropolitan Subjectivities in Twentieth-Century Colombo Anoma Pieris 9 Fighting for the Soviet Empire: War Propaganda and Localized Discourses on Soviet Patriotism in Uzbekistan during the Second World War Boram Shin 10 Shared Origins, Shared Outcomes? Transcultural Trajectories of Germany and Japan during the Asia-Pacific War Andrea Germer.