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028			_a: Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. _b: 2/25, First Floor, Arun House, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi _c: 3063 _d: 23/07/2026
082			_a950 GRE
100			_aGreen, Nile.
245			_a How Asia found herself _b: A Story of Intercultural Understanding. _c/ Nile Green.
260			_a, New Haven _b: Yale University Press _c, 2022.
300			_axiv, 453p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b2331
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.
650			_a Intercultural Understanding
650			_aHistory
650			_aAsian History
700			_aNile Green.
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