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

    Published 2022
    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. …”
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