How Asia Found Herself

A Story of Intercultural Understanding

Narrated by Rick Adamson
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Pub Date 29 Nov 2022 | Archive Date 29 Nov 2022

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A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent 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.

A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport...


Advance Praise

“A majestic study of inter-Asian interactions. Green explains in dazzling detail how Asians came to understand the concept of Asia. How Asia Found Herself demonstrates how inter-Asian interactions, and Asia herself, must be studied and analyzed.”—Tansen Sen, author of India, China, and the World

How Asia Found Herself marks a radical shift in perspective. Nile Green's superb book traces pivotal but forgotten encounters among Asian travelers and intellectuals who discovered their own cultures anew through intercultural dialogue and translation. This is a model of polyglot, boundary-crossing research—and a beautiful and moving story of urgent contemporary relevance.” —Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly Waters

“With great attentiveness and sensitivity to detail, Nile Green has produced the first-ever truly inter-Asian intellectual history, uncovering the central role of religion in this story. Deftly researched and written, original, daring and more than fulfilling its promise, this book is an inter-Asian triumph.”—Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, author of The Dao of Muhammad

“A majestic study of inter-Asian interactions. Green explains in dazzling detail how Asians came to understand the concept of Asia. How Asia Found Herself demonstrates how inter-Asian interactions...


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ISBN 9798765073469
PRICE $24.99 (USD)
DURATION 17 Hours, 36 Minutes

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