IntroductionSection 1: Epistemological InterventionsChapter One: Slave of the Colonizer: The Indian Policeman in Chinese Literature Adhira MangalagiriChapter Two: China-India Myths in Xu Dishan's 'Goddess of Supreme Essence' Gal GviliChapter Three: Rethinking Pan-Asianism through Zhang Taiyan: India as Method Viren MurthySection 2: Encounters and ImagesChapter Four: Through the 'Indian Lens': Observations and Self-Reflections in Late Qing Chinese Travel Writings on India Zhang KeChapter Five: India-China 'Connectedness': China and Pan-Asianism in the late-19th to mid-20th Century Writings in Hindi Kamal SheelChapter Six: China in the Popular Imagination: Images of Chin in North India at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Anand A. YangSection 3: Cultures and MediatorsChapter Seven: 'Tagore and China' Reconsidered: Starting from a Conversation with Feng Youlan Yu-ting LeeChapter Eight: When Culture Meets State Diplomacy: The Case of Cheena Bhavana Brian TsuiChapter Nine: Erecting a Gurdwara on Queen's Road East -The Singh Sabha Movement, the Boxer Uprising, and the Sikh Community in Hong Kong Cao YinChapter Ten: Mecca between China and India: Wartime Chinese Islamic Diplomatic Missions across the Indian Ocean Janice Hyeju JeongSection 4: Building and Challenging Imperial NetworksChapter Eleven: Indian Political Activism in Republican China Madhavi ThampiChapter Twelve: Between Alliance and Rivalry: Nationalist China and India During World War II Wen-shuo Liao Chapter Thirteen: Shipping Nationalism in India and China, 1920-1952 Anne ReinhardtChapter Fourteen: The Chinese Intrigue in Kalimpong: Intelligence Gathering and the 'Spies' in a Contact Zone Tansen SenEpiloguePrasenjit Duara