Barbarians, Monsters, Hybrids and Mutants: Asian Inventions of Human "Others"

Maurizio Peleggi (National University of Singapore) 
        Foreign Devils, Benign Monsters: Westerners (and Other Foreigners) in Thai Buddhist Cosmographies

Fabio Rambelli (University of California, Santa Barbera) 
        Glimpses at the Asian Borderlands: Pre-modern Japanese Representations of India and the Muslim World

Emma Teng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
        Visualizing the "Other" on the Taiwan frontier: Qing Ethnographic Illustrations and Maps

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