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02503aam a2200349 i 4500 001 D5925CBC96FD11ED8856CD373CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230118010046 008 221103t20222022ctuab b 000 0 eng c 020 $a 030025704X 020 $a 9780300257045 035 $a (OCoLC)1350636836 040 $a YUS $b eng $e rda $c YUS $d OCLCF $d TOH $d ZQP $d HAM $d YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a------ 050 4 $a JV241 $b .G74 2022 082 04 $a 303.48251 $2 23 100 1 $a Green, Nile, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005071680 $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000116714786. 245 10 $a How Asia found herself : $b a story of intercultural understanding / $c Nile Green. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xiv, 453 pages : $b illustrations (black and white), maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-431) and index. 520 $a "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"--Publisher's website. 650 0 $a Knowledge, Sociology of. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072731 651 0 $a Asia $x Relations. 650 7 $a HISTORY / World. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a International relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00977053 650 7 $a Knowledge, Sociology of. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00988190 651 7 $a Asia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01240495 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021610.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D5925CBC96FD11ED8856CD373CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search