Buddhism, Business, and Red-Cross Diplomacy

Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert’s Journeys to East Asia in the Interwar Period

Bibliographic Data

ID20051868
AuthorsKlaus R Dittrich (corresponding author), Klaus Dittrich
Year2019
Pages79-107
Publication date2019-08-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueFabricating Modern Societies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004410510_005
OpenAlexW2971860882
ISBN9789004410510
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

The Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg is a small state in the heart of Western Europe. Surrounded by Belgium, Germany, and France, the country lacks direct sea access. Boasting a multilingual population, Luxembourg perceives itself as located at the crossroads of French and German culture. Considering its many and empirically traceable cross-border entanglements, a supranational European narrative of Luxembourg's history is a convincing proposition.1 However, it is possible to extend the horizon still further. Luxembourgers reached out to regions beyond Europe, at least from the late nineteenth century onward. Emigration took place not only to the Americas but also to many other places around the world.2 Similar to other landlocked countries like Switzerland, the Grand-Duchy fully participated in the commercial and cultural expansion of Europe.3 Some historians go as far as attributing an imperial dimension to Luxembourg's history, for example by hinting at the existence of a colonial movement in Luxembourg and the involvement of Luxembourgers in the Belgian Congo.4 This chapter approaches the global dimension of Luxembourg's history by focusing on the country's entanglements with East Asia. Regular contacts with China and Japan started in the late nineteenth century. Here, too, Luxembourgers profited from their participation in networks of Belgian 1 See Piet Peport et al

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art history · China · Diplomacy · East Asia · Interwar period · Political science · Politics · SAINT · World War II · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law

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