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How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding

Author: Green, Nile
Binding: Hardback
Pages: 472
Pub Date: 24/01/2023
Publisher: YALE PRESS
ISBN: 9780300257045
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Quick overview A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent
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A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent

"Mr. Green has written a book of rigorous-and refreshing-honesty."-Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal

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.

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