Transport Revolution and Travels to Asia, 1860s-1920s

About

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 Pozna 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.Wacaw Forajter Associate Professor at University of Silesia in Katowice. He is the author of five academic books including Kolonizator skolonizowany. Przypadek Sygurda Winiowskiego (Colonized colonizer. Sygurd Winiowskis 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 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.