Travel Writings on Asia

Introduction.- Section 1: Re-forging Frontiers in Asia – Local and Transcontinental Mobilities in the Global Middle Ages.- Travel, Order and Knowledge: Local officials in the Song Dynasty (960 – 1279) and Functions of Travelling in China.- Transcultural Perceptions of the ‘East’ in the 13th and 14th century – towards a study of curiosity in the Global Middle Ages.- Massacres and Mobilities: Human Movement in the Mongol World Empire.- Section 2: Mapping ‘New’ Frontiers – Curiosity and Knowledge.- Antonio Pigafetta’s Asia.- Bowing to a new king – The Ming-Qing transition in European sources.- The Silk Road as a Spiritual Landscape: The Otani Expeditions and Tibet.- Section 3: The Imperial ‘Gaze’ – Hegemonic Perceptions of Knowledge and Power.- Britain’s Brave Boys and the Haunted House of China. British ‘Adventurers’ and the Empire’s ‘Special Mission’ in the Asia Pacific during the 1840s.- German Dreams of an Empire in the East. TheGerman Expeditions to East Asia and Ferdinand von Richthofen’s encounters with China, 1850 – 1880.- At the Edge of Empire: The Japanese Army in Rehe (Jehol) in the early 1930s.- Section 4: Transnational Perspectives in a Digital Age – Reflections on Global Mobilities in Asia.- A Very, Not So Modern Journey: Representing Europe – Asia encounters through a contemporary Chinese lens.- Mobility and Identity: Northern Drifters and Digital Nomads.