ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PROLOGUE / Vishakha N. Desai ME AND MY TROUSERS / Foreword by David Elliott Part 1 / HISTORIES The Slippered Pantaloon Going Global: Alterity and Other Things at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford From Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic: Modernity at a Time of Change Tokyo-Berlin: A Continuing Dialogue from Empire to Democracy Bye Bye Kitty!!! . : Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art Heaven and Earth : Contemporary Art from the Center of Asia Tibet : What If . ? Pitfalls of Identity in a Slippery Age The Best of Times, The Worst of Times Contemporary Art along the Post-Soviet Silk Road Part 2 / STORIES Who is Wearing the Trousers? KG Subramanyam: An Indian in Oxford Jitish Kallat: Fugitive Moments of an Unacceptable Present Rashid Rana: The Machinery of Truth Naiza Khan: Image and Revelation Xu Bing: Tradition, Representation and Language Ai Weiwei: The Seeds of Time or the Sands of the Desert? Song Dong: "Art, My Last Hope." Sun Yuan & Peng Yu: "Somewhere Beyond Rape and Adultery" Xu Zhen: Chaos and Rectitude in the Face of History Makoto Aida: The Surface of Things Miwa Yanagi: The Four Ages of Woman Chiharu Shiota: Time and Distance, Absence and Silence Tomoko Kashiki: A Floating World Heri Dono's Paradox: The Arrow or the Kris? Chatchai Puipia's Last Masque: A Funerary Oration Rodel Tapaya: "The One You Feed" Choi Jeong Hwa: Gangbuk Style Yeesookyung: Reflections on a Korean Urn Part 3 / MIGRATIONS A Short History Of The Trouser Cai Guo-Qiang: Earth, Air and Fire Zeng Xiaojun: Labyrinths Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Faces of Infinity Leiko Ikemura: The House Beyond the Horizon Nezaket Ekici: The World in a House Rasheed Araeen: The Dancer and the Flame Bharti Kher: Icebergs in India, Snowballs in Hell EPILOGUE INDEX.