How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding - Couverture rigide

Nile Green

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 030025704X ISBN 13 : 9780300257045

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2022

Synopsis

A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world’s largest continent<br /><br /> 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."<br />  <br /> 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nile Green holds the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at UCLA. A prize-winning author and former Guggenheim Fellow, after decades traveling among the cultures he describes, he wrote this book to explore how those cultures have understood one another.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 030025704X
• ISBN 13: 9780300257045
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 464
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