How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding Green Nile
How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding Green Nile A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest…
Specifikacia How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding Green Nile
How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding Green Nile
A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent "Mr. The unintended consequence was an Asian communications revolution: the maritime public sphere expanded from Istanbul to Yokohama. Green has written a book of rigorous--and refreshing--honesty."--Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street JournalThe 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.
Whether in Japanese or Persian, Bengali or Arabic, they wrote travelogues, histories, and phrasebooks to chart 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.