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...with a global reach, whose adherents tramped from one end of the earth to the other, saving souls. To be sure, in their zeal to convert, missionaries often mixed faith with cruelty, as Spain's blood-drenched conquest of Mexico in the name of God abundantly proved. But as Nayan Chanda of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization argued in his recent book Bound Together, the great religions were also intimately associated with the growth of trade and human contact. "For all the horror it visited upon people," wrote Chanda, "missionary activity had the effect of shrinking...
...writes Stephanie Coontz in Marriage, a History. Families exchanged daughters and sons for labor, land, goods and status. These matches were so important that, in almost every society, a community member eventually set up shop in setting up unions; in northern India, it was the barber's wife, the nayan. "Be a matchmaker once," goes the Chinese saying, "and you can eat for three years...
...singles ages 20 to 34, and 71% believe arranged marriages are more successful than "love" marriages. But with so many moving to cities or even abroad--up to a third of the population, according to the latest census--the Internet is proving preferable to the services of the village nayan. So-called matrimonial sites first appeared 10 years ago and today make up half the world's matchmaking sites. Like U.S. sites, they offer free viewing but charge about $40 to subscribe for three months. BharatMatrimony, a leading site, claims 10 million members and, in its 10 years, a million...
...story of the Koan fakes is one of many in Nayan Chanda's Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization. While most of us consider globalization to be a purely contemporary phenomenon - conjuring up images of multinational coffee chains and multilingual call centers - to Chanda it is as old as humanity itself, and as complex and unpredictable. It "has worked silently for millennia without being given a name," writes the author, a former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review now at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. And it moves through "a multitude...
Honored for his keen understanding of the Asia-Pacific region and his investigative reporting skills, Nayan R. Chanda—former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER)—received the 2005 Shorenstein Award for Journalism last week at the Kennedy School of Government...