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

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
مؤلف مشترك: SpringerLink (Online service)
مؤلفون آخرون: Mueller, Christian (المحرر), Salonia, Matteo (المحرر)
الملخص:XIV, 310 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.
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اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
الطبعة:1st ed. 2022.
سلاسل:Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies,
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0124-9
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
جدول المحتويات:
  • 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.