Bibliograph

How Asia found herself, a story of intercultural understanding, Nile Green

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How Asia found herself, a story of intercultural understanding, Nile Green

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-431) and index

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mapsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How Asia found herself

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1350636836

Responsibility statement

Nile Green

Sub title

a story of intercultural understanding

Summary

"The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it saw Christian missionaries spread printing across Asia to bring Bibles to the colonized. The unintended consequence was an Asian communications revolution: the maritime public sphere expanded from Istanbul to Yokohama. From all corners of the continent, curious individuals confronted the challenges of studying each other's cultures by using the infrastructure of empire for their own exploratory ends. Whether in Japanese or Persian, Bengali or Arabic, they wrote travelogues, histories, and phrasebooks to chart the vastly different regions that European geographers labeled 'Asia'. Yet comprehension does not always keep pace with connection. Far from flowing smoothly, inter-Asian understanding faced obstacles of many kinds, especially on a landmass with so many scripts and languages. Here is the dramatic story of cross-cultural knowledge on the world's largest continent, exposing the roots of enduring fractures in Asian unity"--Publisher's website

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