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DESCRIPTION:In the early modern period\, the intensifying movements of mate
 rials\, plants\, and personnel generated a surge in cross-cultural knowled
 ge making. Rather than viewing these exchanges as seamless transmissions o
 f information\, this panel investigates the productive tensions between ma
 terial realities and their myriad textual representations. We interrogate 
 how geography\, botany\, and craftsmanship were conceptualized through the
  lenses of creative imagination\, philological traditions\, and political 
 visions\, which created gaps between textual authority and empirical reali
 ty. \nStarting from Northeast Asia\, Sixiang Wang explores the eighteenth-
 century Korean shipwreck narrative _Records of Drifting Across the Sea_ (1
 771)\, arguing that the “drifting records” function less as documentar
 y accounts than political allegories to envision a specific interstate ord
 er. Shifting to botanical exchange\, Yijun Wang traces the transmission of
  citrus varieties and  nomenclature across China\, Korea\, and Japan\, rev
 ealing how classical textual frameworks and philological traditions often 
 obscure or distorted actual biological specimens in transcultural contexts
 . Finally\, moving from East Asia to Central Asia\, Yulian Wu investigates
  the Qing court’s perception of Hindustan jade and its mythical “water
 -grinding” technique\, illustrating how imaginative interpretations of f
 oreign craft technology served the epistemic purpose of empire-building. T
 ogether\, this panel moves away from treating historical texts as transpar
 ent records of information. Instead\, we center our discussion on the opac
 ity and fluidity of transcultural exchanges\, treating "misinformation" an
 d "imagination" not as merely errors to be corrected\, but as productive s
 ites of inquiry for understanding the politics of knowledge making in earl
 y modern Asia.
DTSTAMP:20260412T123934Z
LOCATION:Room 204 PC Desk (Seats 30)
SUMMARY:The Politics of Trans-Cultural Knowledge Making in Early Modern Asi
 a - Yijun Wang\, Sixiang Wang\, Yulian Wu\, Jung Lee
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/7PCAYZ/
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