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The first thing I notice in Tashkent’s celebrated underground, even before the famous murals and ceilings, is a prominently displayed ad for a local university featuring a faculty member who was a Bengali, at least...

Tagliacozzo’s ‘In Asian Waters’ seeks to cover an enormous space over an enormous time period but all it manages is a grasshopper movement from one theme to another.

Historians still ponder why, despite its dominance in prior centuries, China failed to industrialize before Europe. Some contend that the culture of conformity