Hannah Gould is Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of When Death Falls Apart: Making and Unmaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary Japan.Gwyn McClelland is Senior Lecturer at the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives.

“Aromas of Asia is very much at the cutting edge of the field. Many books on smell engage in a battle with the straw man of ‘smell-as-neglected’ and ‘the West as ocular-centric.’ This book has moved way beyond such simplicities, and through its varied methodologies and diverse topics we emerge with a number of fresh perspectives on smell in Asia.”—James McHugh, author of Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Scents, Sensory Colonialism, and Social Worlds in AsiaGwyn McClelland and Hannah GouldPart I: Poetics and Philosophies1. On a Trail of Incense: Japan and Olfactory ThoughtLorenzo Marinucci2. The Shifting Smellscape of Early Medieval China: Emperor Wu’s Strange AromaticsPeter Romaskiewicz3. The Poetics of Incense in the Lives of Medieval Chinese OfficialsQian JiaPart II: Making Sensory Boundaries4. A Whiff of Southeast Asia: Tasting Durian and KopiGaik Cheng Khoo and Jean Duruz5. The Aroma of a Place in the Sunshine: Breathing in Japanese History Through the Fiction of Endō ShūsakuGwyn McClelland6. Words That Smell: Caste and Odors in Hindi Dalit AutobiographiesShivani Kapoor7. Love Is in the Air: A Study of Johnnie To’s Blind DetectiveAubrey TangPart III: Bodies–Life, Work, Death8. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Smell of Vulnerability in Lombok, IndonesiaSaki Tanada9. Harnessing the Stenches of Waste: Human Bodies as Olfactory Environmental Sensors in Contemporary ChinaAdam Liebman10. The Smell of a Corpse: Olfactory Culture in a Singaporean Funeral ParlorRuth E. ToulsonList of ContributorsIndex

Hannah Gould is Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of When Death Falls Apart: Making and Unmaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary Japan.Gwyn McClelland is Senior Lecturer at the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives.

“Aromas of Asia is very much at the cutting edge of the field. Many books on smell engage in a battle with the straw man of ‘smell-as-neglected’ and ‘the West as ocular-centric.’ This book has moved way beyond such simplicities, and through its varied methodologies and diverse topics we emerge with a number of fresh perspectives on smell in Asia.”—James McHugh, author of Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Scents, Sensory Colonialism, and Social Worlds in AsiaGwyn McClelland and Hannah GouldPart I: Poetics and Philosophies1. On a Trail of Incense: Japan and Olfactory ThoughtLorenzo Marinucci2. The Shifting Smellscape of Early Medieval China: Emperor Wu’s Strange AromaticsPeter Romaskiewicz3. The Poetics of Incense in the Lives of Medieval Chinese OfficialsQian JiaPart II: Making Sensory Boundaries4. A Whiff of Southeast Asia: Tasting Durian and KopiGaik Cheng Khoo and Jean Duruz5. The Aroma of a Place in the Sunshine: Breathing in Japanese History Through the Fiction of Endō ShūsakuGwyn McClelland6. Words That Smell: Caste and Odors in Hindi Dalit AutobiographiesShivani Kapoor7. Love Is in the Air: A Study of Johnnie To’s Blind DetectiveAubrey TangPart III: Bodies–Life, Work, Death8. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Smell of Vulnerability in Lombok, IndonesiaSaki Tanada9. Harnessing the Stenches of Waste: Human Bodies as Olfactory Environmental Sensors in Contemporary ChinaAdam Liebman10. The Smell of a Corpse: Olfactory Culture in a Singaporean Funeral ParlorRuth E. ToulsonList of ContributorsIndex

Hannah Gould is Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of When Death Falls Apart: Making and Unmaking the Necromaterial Traditions of Contemporary Japan.Gwyn McClelland is Senior Lecturer at the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives.

“Aromas of Asia is very much at the cutting edge of the field. Many books on smell engage in a battle with the straw man of ‘smell-as-neglected’ and ‘the West as ocular-centric.’ This book has moved way beyond such simplicities, and through its varied methodologies and diverse topics we emerge with a number of fresh perspectives on smell in Asia.”—James McHugh, author of Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Scents, Sensory Colonialism, and Social Worlds in AsiaGwyn McClelland and Hannah GouldPart I: Poetics and Philosophies1. On a Trail of Incense: Japan and Olfactory ThoughtLorenzo Marinucci2. The Shifting Smellscape of Early Medieval China: Emperor Wu’s Strange AromaticsPeter Romaskiewicz3. The Poetics of Incense in the Lives of Medieval Chinese OfficialsQian JiaPart II: Making Sensory Boundaries4. A Whiff of Southeast Asia: Tasting Durian and KopiGaik Cheng Khoo and Jean Duruz5. The Aroma of a Place in the Sunshine: Breathing in Japanese History Through the Fiction of Endō ShūsakuGwyn McClelland6. Words That Smell: Caste and Odors in Hindi Dalit AutobiographiesShivani Kapoor7. Love Is in the Air: A Study of Johnnie To’s Blind DetectiveAubrey TangPart III: Bodies–Life, Work, Death8. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Smell of Vulnerability in Lombok, IndonesiaSaki Tanada9. Harnessing the Stenches of Waste: Human Bodies as Olfactory Environmental Sensors in Contemporary ChinaAdam Liebman10. The Smell of a Corpse: Olfactory Culture in a Singaporean Funeral ParlorRuth E. ToulsonList of ContributorsIndex