This volume seeks to discuss the influence of new modes of transportation and their coexistence with older ones by incorporating a comprehensive range of sources written by both European and Asian travellers. It is inspired by the anthropology of the senses, the sociology of travel, post-colonial theory, and the cultural history of transport
During the “long” 19th century, a technological revolution occurred, leading to the emergence of new means of transport such as steamships, railways, cars, aeroplanes, bicycles, and rickshaws. This transport revolution not only fundamentally transformed modes of travel and made distant lands more accessible, but it also significantly impacted how travellers experienced the world. The authors of this volume aim to deepen the understanding of the influence of these new modes of transportation and their coexistence with older ones by incorporating a comprehensive range of sources written by both European and Asian travellers. The approach presented in this volume is inspired by the anthropology of the senses, the sociology of travel, and the cultural history of transport. These methodological frameworks are applied to accounts of travels to, from, and within Asia. This perspective enables a focus on various contexts not visible in Europe, including imperialism, Eurocentric approaches to modernisation, and the reactions of colonised peoples to these developments.
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The book considers how technological innovations and transport improvements (such as the train, motorcar, and bike) dramatically transformed perspectives and intensified European experiences of the Asian space. Its authors offer a combination of detailed text interpretations with well-presented theoretical insights. This excellent and highly readable book will fascinate specialists and non-specialists alike.
Wojciech Tomasik, Professor of Polish Literature and Culture, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland
This is an important new contribution that not only fills gaps in our knowledge but also opens new avenues for research. This collection will remain a reference point in imagology for many years.
Zoran Milutinovi, Professor of South Slav Literature and Modern Literary Theory, University College London, UK
List of contributors
Introduction: Transport Revolution and Travels to Asia from the 1860s to the
1920s
Tomasz Ewertowski, Wacaw Forajter,
I. Multiple mobilities
Two Distant Points: Serbian travels to Asia 1860s1920s
Vladimir Gvozden, Nataa Milivojevi
Two Journeys to Siberia: Carceral Mobility, Social Change, and Mechanised
Transport in Wacaw Sieroszewskis Writings
Kyunney Takasaeva, Marta Czerwieniec-Ivasyk, Tomasz Ewertowski
How strange and out of place that motor seemed: Automobile journeys in
Mongolia, 19071930
Tomasz Ewertowski
II. Landscape and senses
Capturing Asia from a birds eye view: A computational analysis of language
patterns in Polish travel writing (1870s1920s)
Anna Koos, Agnieszka Karliska
Modernity as an element of the colonial landscape in Polish travel diaries
from the latter half of the nineteenth century
Oliwia Gromadzka
The impact of the means of transport on Jelena J. Dimitrijevis travel
imagination
Vladimir uri
Birds Eye View of Unknown Countries: Two Flight Expeditions to Asia
Mikoaj Paczkowski
III. Cross-cultural encounters and representations
Temporary and precarious alliances: Travelling among the others in Polish
travelogues from Asia
Wacaw Forajter
José Rizal on Ships and Trains: Dreams, Timetables, Nightmares
Jan Mrázek
Imperial Cloud: China and Its Inhabitants in Cycling Travel Books of Thomas
Stevens, Thomas Allen & William Sachtleben and John Foster Fraser
Grzegorz Moroz
Journey to the West: Kang Youweis perception of modern transportation
Peng Yuchao
Index
Tomasz Ewertowski, PhD, is a lecturer at the Shanghai International Studies University, China. He graduated from and worked as a researcher at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna, Poland. His research interests include travel writing studies, imagology, and comparative literature. He has served as a principal investigator on two Polish National Science Centre grants. His publications include a monograph, Images of China in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings (2020) and articles in journals like Studies in Travel Writing, Mobilities, Indonesia and the Malay World.
Wacaw Forajter is an Associate Professor at University of Silesia in Katowice. He is the author of five academic books, including Kolonizator skolonizowany. Przypadek Sygurda Winiowskiego (Colonized colonizer. Sygurd Winiowskis case; University of Silesia 2014); Dyslokacja. Studia o literaturze i innych dyskursach XIX wieku (Dislocations. Studies in literature and other discourses of the 19th century; University of Silesia 2022) and several dozen articles in Polish scientific periodicals. He also translated from French a philosophical monograph Esthétique de la photographie of François Soulages and the essays of Paul Valéry and Jean-Luc Nancy. His research interest focus on 19th-century history, theory of literature, anthropology of culture, and postcolonial theory.
Oliwia Gromadzka, PhD, is a student at the Doctoral School of Humanities at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan in the field of History. She works on issues of European colonialism, the history of intercultural contacts, space studies, and postcolonial discourse.
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