Kinafarerne. Mellem kejserens Kina og kongens København [The travellers to China. Between the emperor’s China and the king’s Copenhagen]

ological underpinnings of the analysis that are strategically flagged along the book’s pages. If anything, Christensen book invites for further analysis and research that both empirically and theoretically expands on the important questions that are raised by the analysis. This book provides an important step down this avenue, and one can only hope future studies will be able to get even closer to the lifeworld of children, women, craftsmen and sailors in the waters of South Fynen. Med skibet i kroppen is, all in all, an important and well-written contribution to a hitherto somewhat overlooked element of Danish maritime history.