The Elephant, dragon and eagle
The relationship between China and India is clearly one-sided: India is obsessed with a China which is approaching lift-off toward becoming on the verge of a developed nation within a generation (certain urban areas are already basically developed, albeit not particularly wealthy in comparison to Hong Kong or Singapore). Often when I see interviews […]
Humans and the settlement of Asia
Current Anthropology has a bunch of articles related to the human settlement of Asia in its latest issue ahead of print. Aside from Martin Sikora’s most of them have a more traditional paleontological focus, so it’s pretty tough for me to understand them in context. But it’s all important to take in as we get […]
The Asian world
We live in interesting times. The world system is slowly shifting back to the historical norm. That norm being that most people and economic production would occur in Asia. The book When Asia Was the World chronicles period the between after the fall of the Roman Empirea and on the cusp of the European Age […]