Introductory (Dis)Orientation: A View from Singapore
Jan Mrázek
1. The Dutch East Indies in the Eyes of a Pole: Teodor Anzelm Dzwonkowski and his Memoirs from the Service in the Dutch Navy in the Years 1788–1793
Dariusz Kołodziejczyk
2. A Czech Army Doctor in Sumatra: Native Soil, Miasmatic Mud, Russian Hallucinations, All The Empires
Jan Mrázek
3. The First Impressions of Singapore in Serbian Literature
Nada Savković
4. Julian Fałat in Southeast Asia: Hybridity and Mimicry in the Memoirs of a Polish/Kakanian/European Painter
Grzegorz Moroz
5. Colonialism, Freedom Fighters and the Polish Ambiguity: How Józef Conrad Korzeniowski and Bronisław Piłsudski (Almost) Met in Singapore
Rafal Pankowski
6. The Fate of the Birds of Paradise: Enrique Stanko Vráz in Southeast Asia
Iveta Nakládalová
7. Ethnic Comparisons in Travelogues about Southeast Asia by Poles and Serbs of Austro-Hungarian Background, 1869–1914
Tomasz Ewertowski
8. The Polish Botanist Marian Raciborski and his 1901 Wayang Kulit Performance: Images and Encounters
Marianna Lis
9. The Identity of the Strange: The (Post)colonial Perspective in the Texts and Pictures of László Székely
Gábor Pusztai
10. Islands of Paradise? Java and Bali Through a Woman’s Eyes: The Journey of Ilona Zboray
Vera Brittig
11. Indochina’s Deadly Sun: Polish Maritime and Colonial League’s Depictions of Southeast Asia
Marta Grzechnik
12. Czechoslovaks in Singapore and Malaya in the Interwar Period
Jan Beránek
13. Unaware Colonialism Meets Empathy and Insightfulness: Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s Travel Diary to Burma
Michał Lubina
14. Double vision: Yugoslav Travellers and the Conflicting Images of Southeast Asia in the Era of Late Colonialism
Nemanja Radonjić
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