Affective Encounters, Alternative Modernities and Travel Narratives between China and the World
Journal: Critical Arts
This special issue (re)examines travel narratives of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as an affective archive of Sino-foreign encounters in the context of various concepts of modernity. Travel narratives from metropolitan centers to Asia have generated substantial scholarship; yet, despite some interesting case studies, the rich corpus of narratives circulating between the non-core regions of the world s…