An analytical examination of knowledge spillovers in the context of geography of knowledge history:Case study of the experoutination(youli)records in the South China Sea section of Maritime Silk Road
As a research perspective,postcolonial criticism helps overcome the long-standing prevailing Eurocentrism's control over geographical knowledge systems and research theories,thus avoiding neglect of geographical knowledge from non-European areas.The research para-digm of geography of knowledge history which has gradually attracted extensive attention in re-cent years,is different from the geography of science history based on Eurocentrism.The geog-raphy of knowledge history emphasizes the accumulation of non-European geographical knowl-edge and the importance and academic value of non-European knowledge systems.Experoutina-tion(youli)is the activity in which humans,since ancient times,engage in geographical explora-tion and experience in distant locations during travels and at destinations,resulting in an amount of diverse records.The experoutination(youli)records are of significant importance for studying the carriers and processes of knowledge spillovers throughout historical periods,providing cru-cial data sources for research in the history of knowledge geography and postcolonial criticism.Based on processing and coding 32 experoutination(youli)records formed in the South China Sea section of the Maritime Silk Road from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty,this study established a database of experoutination(youli)records.This study finds that the knowl-edge spillovers,in the South China Sea section of the Maritime Silk Road,caused by experouti-nation(youli)has three carriers:private individuals,government organizations and trade organi-zations.The results of content analysis show that geographic knowledge spillovers can be divid-ed into explicit and implicit,which can be further divided into 16 sub types and 63 basic types.The carriers and contents of knowledge spillovers are obviously different during periods.This study proves with historical data and specific cases that the experoutination(youli)records are an important data source for research on knowledge spillovers,which has important theoretical value for the geography of knowledge history.
geography of knowledge historyexperoutination(youli)recordsknowledge spill-oversSouth China Sea section of Maritime Silk Road
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