How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding
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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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| Publisher | Yale University Press (24 Jan. 2023) |
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| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 464 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 030025704X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0300257045 |
| Dimensions | 16.51 x 5.33 x 22.35 cm |
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Nile Green argues that until the end of the nineteenth century Asia was a concept contrived by Europe but unrecognised by its component nations. In a detailed analysis of indigenous literatures he traces the discovery of the different cultures and traditions by other’Asian’ countries
He traces how the religions through missionary outreach took not just their religious practices to the wider continent but by their linguistic skills brought about international understanding. He traces the in
Importance of the intellectual skills of missionaries from Ba’hai, Hindu, Buddhist Muslim and Christian traditions in spreading awareness of culture and history and languages in what was effectively inter religious understanding
An amazing and enlightening book!