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亚洲如何认识自我：

一个跨文化理解的故事

基本信息

Nile Green, How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.

About this book

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 s 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.

关于本书

十九世纪，欧洲帝国为了最大化贸易利润，建立起庞大的运输网络；与此同时，基督教传教士为了向被殖民者传播《圣经》，将印刷术推广至亚洲各地。这造就了一个意想不到的结果：亚洲经历了一场传播革命，海上公共领域从伊斯坦布尔延伸至横滨。 来自这片大陆各个角落的求知者们开始面对研究彼此文化的挑战，他们利用帝国的基础设施来实现自己的探索目标。无论是用日语还是波斯语，孟加拉语还是阿拉伯语，他们都通过撰写游记、历史著作和短语手册，来描绘欧洲地理学家们统称为"亚洲"的这片广袤而迥异的区域。

然而，互联并不必然带来理解。在这片拥有众多文字和语言的大陆上，亚洲内部的相互理解面临诸多障碍。 本书戏剧性地讲述了世界最大洲的跨文化知识交流史，揭示了亚洲统一性持续断裂的根源。

About the Author

Nile Green, a prize-winning author and former Guggenheim Fellow, holds the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

关于作者

奈尔·格林是一位获奖作家，曾获古根海姆研究员殊荣，现任加州大学洛杉矶分校伊本·赫勒敦世界史讲座教授。

中国人民大学口述史研修班（第四期）报名（