Travel Writings on Asia Curiosity, Identities, and Knowledge Across the East, c. 1200 to the Present /

Travel Writings on Asia Curiosity, Identities, and Knowledge Across the East, c. 1200 to the Present /

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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 di...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Mueller, Christian (Editor), Salonia, Matteo (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Edition:1st ed. 2022.
Series:Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies,
Subjects:
Asia > History.
World history.
Archaeology.
Human geography.
Cultural geography.
Ethnology.
Asian History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Social and Cultural Geography.
Sociocultural Anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Section 1: Re-forging Frontiers in Asia - Local and Transcontinental Mobilities in the Global Middle Ages
  • Travel, Order and Knowledge: Local officials in the Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) and Functions of Travelling in China
  • Transcultural Perceptions of the 'East' in the 13th and 14th century - towards a study of curiosity in the Global Middle Ages
  • Massacres and Mobilities: Human Movement in the Mongol World Empire
  • Section 2: Mapping 'New' Frontiers - Curiosity and Knowledge
  • Antonio Pigafetta's Asia
  • Bowing to a new king - The Ming-Qing transition in European sources
  • The Silk Road as a Spiritual Landscape: The Otani Expeditions and Tibet
  • Section 3: The Imperial 'Gaze' - Hegemonic Perceptions of Knowledge and Power
  • Britain's Brave Boys and the Haunted House of China. British 'Adventurers' and the Empire's 'Special Mission' in the Asia Pacific during the 1840s
  • German Dreams of an Empire in the East. TheGerman Expeditions to East Asia and Ferdinand von Richthofen's encounters with China, 1850 - 1880
  • At the Edge of Empire: The Japanese Army in Rehe (Jehol) in the early 1930s
  • Section 4: Transnational Perspectives in a Digital Age - Reflections on Global Mobilities in Asia
  • A Very, Not So Modern Journey: Representing Europe - Asia encounters through a contemporary Chinese lens
  • Mobility and Identity: Northern Drifters and Digital Nomads.

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