Jacob Copeman is Research Professor at University of Santiago de Compostela. He co-edited the volume Global Sceptical Publics: From Non-religious Print Media to ‘Digital Atheism’ (UCL Press, 2022) with Mascha Schulz.

“This is an outstanding book … [which] provides an anthropological approach to the understanding and analysis of sociohistorical contexts which support intellectual exchanges in Asia. It is a uniquely engaging volume which not only brings together ethnographic insights from a variety of different geographical contexts but suggests novel methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of intellectual life.” • Filippo Osella, University of Sussex“This is a bold and innovative book about the complex realities of living in a global age … It is both comprehensive in its breadth and precise in its ethnographic detail.” • Arkotong Longkumer, University of Edinburgh

• List of FiguresForewordSunil AmrithAcknowledgementsIntroduction: An Anthropology of Intellectual ExchangeNicholas J. Long, Jacob Copeman, Magnus Marsden, Lam Minh Chau and Joanna CookPart I. Bridging WorldsChapter 1. Mapping Time, Living Space: The Moral Cartography of Renovation in Late-Socialist VietnamSusan BaylyChapter 2. Worlds United and Apart: Bridging Divergence in Hanoi and BeyondSusan BaylyPart II: Asian Transformations and ComplexitiesChapter 3. Soviet-style Apartment Blocks in Hanoi: Architecture and Intellectual ExchangeNguyen Van Huy and Nguyen Vu HoangChapter 4. Intellectual Exchanges in Muslim Asia: Intersections of History and GeographyMagnus MarsdenChapter 5. Super Singhs and Kaurageous Kaurs: Sikh Names, Caste and Disidentity PoliticsJacob CopemanChapter 6. Retrieving the Muted Subject in the Early Socialist Ecumene: The Example of the Mongolian Scholar Mergen GombojabCaroline HumphreyChapter 7. Intellectual Exchange with Hands: Cosmology and Materiality in Manual Sharing Practices of an Asian Musical InstrumentSukanya SarbadhikaryChapter 8. Cooking the ‘Imperialist West’: The Exchange of Non-Marxist Non-Evolutionist Ideas in Vietnamese Institutionalized Anthropology in the Pre-Renovation High-Socialist PeriodLam Minh ChauChapter 9. The Ideal of Intellectual Exchange: Study Abroad, Affect, and the Ambivalences of Citizenship in Post-Suharto IndonesiaNicholas J. LongChapter 10. This is the End? The French Settler Community in Saigon and the Fall of Indochina in 1945Christopher GoschaAfterwordJames LaidlawIndex