1 Transcultural Studies 2013.2 2013. 2 Editor’s NotE Monica Juneja, Joachim Kurtz .04 ArticlEs Ori Sela From Theology’s Handmaid to the Science of Sciences: Western Philosophy’s Transformations on its Way to China .07 Yue Zhuang “Luxury” and “the Surprising” in Sir William Chambers’ Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (1772): Commercial Society and Burke’s Sublime-Effect .45 Mio Wakita Sites of “Disconnectedness”: The Port City of Yokohama, Souvenir Photography, and its Audience .77 Arianna Dagnino Global Mobility, Transcultural Literature, and Multiple Modes of Modernity .130 2 Contributors to this Issue transcultural studies, No 2, 2013, issN: 2191-6411 Editors: Monica Juneja,Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Rudolf G. Wagner, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Managing Editor: Andrea Hacker Editorial Board: Christiane Brosius, Antje Fluechter, Madeleine Herren, Birgit Kellner, Joachim Kurtz, Axel Michaels, Barbara Mittler, Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Vladimir Tikhonov, and Roland Wenzlhuemer. Transcultural Studies is an open-access e-journal published bi-annually by the Cluster of Excellence, “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: The Dynamics of Transculturality“ at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. For more information see: www.transculturalstudies.org coNtriBUtors to tHis issUE: ori sela is a lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University, a fellow of the Minerva Humanities Center at the same institution, and is affiliated with the Migration of Knowledge research group. He researches the intellectual history of late imperial China, as well as China’s complex transition into the modern period during the 20th century. His dissertation, Qian Daxin (1728-1804): Knowledge, Identity, and Reception History in China, 1750-1930, analyzed the ways in which knowledge was produced from the middle of the Qing period until the Republican era and examined the nexus of identity and knowledge during this period. His research interests include philology, historiography, the categorization of knowledge, and China's intercultural interactions with Japan and the West, as well as the implications of these interactions on concepts of identity as held by various Chinese thinkers. Zhuang Yue is a postdoctoral research fellow and Marie Curie fellow at the URPP Asia and Europe, University of Zurich, and a lecturer at the School of Architecture, Tianjin University. She contributed essays to edited volumes such as From the things themselves: Architecture and Phenomenology (Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2012) and journals such as Zhongguo yuanlin 3 Transcultural Studies 2013.2 [Landscape Architecture]. She is currently leading an EU Marie Curie project, ‘Matteo Ripa’s “Views of Jehol”: Entangled histories and 18th Century European and Chinese landscape representations,’ to which this article belongs. Mio Wakita is an art historian who specializes in Japanese photography and nineteenth-century Japanese visual arts, and teaches Japanese art history as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of East Asian Art History, Ruprecht- Karls-Universität Heidelberg. She has published several articles on souvenir photography from Yokohama in English, German and Japanese. Her major publications include “Selling Japan: Kusakabe Kimbei’s Image of Japanese Women,” History of Photography 33:2 (May 2009): 209-223, and Staging Desires: Japanese Femininity in Kusakabe Kimbei’s Nineteenth-Century Souvenir Photography (Berlin: Reimer, 2013). Arianna dagnino holds a PhD in World Literature and Creative Writing from the University of South Australia (2013) and a Master’s Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Genoa. In the last 25 years, she has lived and worked abroad extensively, as an independent journalist, travel writer, literary translator, and sociocultural analyst. She has published several books on the impact of globalization, mobility, and new technologies on society, culture, and identity. Her first novel, Fossili (Rome: Fazi, 2010), is a transcultural odyssey inspired by the four years (1997-2000) she spent as acting correspondent for the Italian press in South Africa.