The World...

Although digitalorient is mainly concerned with Asia, no part of the world can nowadays be separated from its global context. India, Nepal, China and Japan were all linked with each other and in turn were linked to other parts of the world. The materials on Asia need to be set within a wider comparative understanding of how the world has developed as a single system. So we are including a series of films which look at the whole history of the world over the last ten thousand years. These try to make sense of the inter-related developments along with the similarities and differences between Asia and other parts of the world. There is also an extended discussion of central themes in human history by a number of leading academics in an unscripted seminar at Cambridge University.