The Image of the Chinese in the Southeast Asian Contact Zone. National Comparisons in the Travelogues of Milan Jovanović and Władysław Michał Zaleski
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2016-12
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Russian and Foreign Literature Department of Tomsk State University
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The main aim of the article is to examine the ideological background and sociopolitical
framework of two different images of the Chinese communities in Southeast
Asia as presented in two travelogues respectively written by the Polish clergyman
Wladyslaw Michal Zaleski and Serbian writer and doctor Milan Jovanovic. Southeast Asia is treated as a “contact zone” whereby different communities
are intertwined in a struggle for hegemony. The writers’ trips to Asia were conditioned
by European capitalistic expansion; however, being respectively Polish
and Serbian, they came from countries which were also oppressed by great powers.
Analysis of their travel writings shows how imperialist and orientalist discourse
might have been influenced by various factors. Differences between the
two writers issued mostly from their different outlooks on the world; Jovanovi
being liberal, and Zaleski being conservative and Catholic.
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This work was supported by the National Centre of Science Project China in Polish
and Serbian travel writing [from the beginning of the 18th century to the middle of the
20th century] no. 2014/15/D/HS2/00801, Decision Number DEC-2014/15/D/HS2/00801.
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imagology, comparative literature, contact zone, image of China, postcolonialism, Zaleski Władysław Michał, Jovanović Milan, Chinese, imagologia, komparatystyka, postkolonializm, strefa kontaktu, Chiny - obraz, podróżopisarstwo, Azja Południowo-Wschodnia, Southeast Asia
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Imagologiya i komparativistika – Imagology and Comparative Studies, 2016, 2(6), pp. 40–57. DOI: 10.17223/24099554/6/2
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2409-9554