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, Poznań, 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. Wacław Forajter is an Associate Professor at University of Silesia in Katowice. He is the author of five academic books, including Kolonizator skolonizowany. Przypadek Sygurda Wiśniowskiego (Colonized colonizer. Sygurd Wiśniowski’s 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.
“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 Milutinović, Professor of South Slav Literature and Modern Literary Theory, University College London, UK