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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Touching the Chinese World -- 2 (Un)Touched by China -- 3 Embodied Interculturalism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

This article addresses questions of white hybridity and transcultural metamorphosis as they are scrutinized and played out in the writings on China and India of the contemporary French author and journalist Marc Boulet. It investigates the motivations behind Boulet's will to cross-cultural self-transformation, and addresses the ways in which he seeks to coexist with the cultural Other. It adopts a critical perspective which is that of transnational cultural studies.

This article deals with French travel texts concerned with China and published in the mid-twentieth century, at a moment when the PRC was opening up to the West and was the object of a proliferation of narratives produced by French ideological tourists bent on celebrating the merits of the Maoist regime. It positions the authors of the texts in question, René Étiemble and Jules Roy, not as typical voyageurs idéologiques but rather as travellers driven by a desire to extract from China a form of sustenance that is finally withheld, and examines the effect on their travellers' tales of the PRC's refusal of various sorts of gratification. More broadly, it contributes to investigations of the particular variant of culture-contact that has obtained between France and China in the twentieth century and after.

Despite the growing academic and political urgency in understanding how 'other' cultures encounter 'the West', economics has been slow to engage with the ideas and challenges posed by postcolonial critiques. In turn, postcolonial approaches have been criticised for their simplistic treatment of the economic and for not engaging with existing economic analyses of poverty and wealth creation. Utilising examples drawn from India to Latin America, and bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, including Geography, Economics, Development Studies, History and Women's Studies, Postcoloni