Travel Writings on Asia: Curiosity, Identities, and Knowledge Across the East, c. 1200 to the Present 1st Edition

Travel Writings on Asia: Curiosity, Identities, and Knowledge Across the East, c. 1200 to the Present 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9789811901232,9811901236,9789811901249, 9811901244

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 9811901244
• ISBN-13: 9789811901249
• Author: Christian Mueller, Matteo Salonia
  

The open access book provides an analysis of human actors and their capacity to explore and conceptualise their own agency by being curious, gathering knowledge, and shaping identities in their travel reflections on Asia. Thus, the actors open windows across time to present a profound overview of diverse descriptions and constructions of Asia. The authors demonstrate that international and transnational history contributes to and benefits from analyses of national and local contexts that in turn enrich our understanding of transcultural encounters and experiences across time.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Curiosity, Identities, and Knowledge in Travel Writings on Asia
2. The Production of Knowledge and Preservation of Self-identity: William of Rubruck and Ibn Battuta in Contact with Mongols
3. Travelling Across Late Mediaeval Eurasia: Travel, Curiosity and Knowledge in the Mongol Period
4. Asian Ceremonies and Christian Chivalry in Pigafetta’s ‘The First Voyage Around the World’
5. Bowing to a New Emperor: Three Different Missionary Perspectives on the Qing Dynasty
6. Travels in a Haunted House. Rational Curiosities and Overlapping Dichotomies in Duncan McPherson MD’s Account of the ‘Chinese Expedition’ of 1840–1842
7. German Dreams of Empire in the Far East: The German Expeditions to the East and Ferdinand von Richthofen’s Encounters with Asia, 1850–1880
8. In Search of Textual Treasures: The Ōtani Expeditions and Tibet
9. Reconstructing a Spatial Knowledge in Northeast Asia: Rehe Through the Eyes of the Japanese Army in the Early 1930s
10. The Challenge of Curiosity During the Cold War: Representations of Asia Between Politics and Consumerism and the Reflections of Goffredo Parise in the 1960s
11. Mobility and the Middle Kingdom

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