Railway experiences of Poles and Serbs in China before 1949: an analysis of travel writings about the Middle Kingdom

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Tomasz Ewertowski
Keyword(s):  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Travel Writings

scholarly journals Chiny wyobrażone – Chiny ucieleśnione. Państwo Środka w polskich i serbskich relacjach z podróży (od XVIII do połowy XX wieku)

2021 ◽  
pp. 241-253
Author(s):  
Karolina Galewska
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
The West ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
Eastern Culture ◽  
Travel Writings ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Far Eastern

The article presents an overview of the issues discussed in Tomasz Ewertowski’s monograph Images of China in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings (1720–1949). It reconstructs the discourse that emerges from the journals as their authors report on their journeys to the Middle Kingdom. The article also analyses the conditioning of the presented attitudes in the context of individual experience. Using imagology-based tools, Ewertowski refers to the mental representations of reality recorded in the text in the form of stereotypically formed ethnotypes. Ewertowski creates a mosaic of the way travellers from the West imagined both Chinese cities and the characteristic features of Far Eastern culture, which is often marked by Eurocentrism and an evaluating attitude towards the Other.

Two Treasurers of the Late Middle Kingdom

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfram Grajetzki
Keyword(s):  
Middle Kingdom
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