Writing Travel in Central Asian History
- For centuries
- Travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings
- In this volume
- Scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs
- The representations of the region brought home to China and Japan
- India and Persia
- Russia and Great Britain
- Provide valuable evidence that helps map earlier periods of globalization and cultural interaction
