Western visions of the Far East in a transpacific age, 1522-1657
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Western visions of the Far East in a transpacific age, 1522-1657
（Transculturalisms, 1400-1700）
Ashgate, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- "The Indies of the West" or, The tale of how an imaginary geography circumnavigated the globe / Ricardo Padrón
- Imagining China in a Golden Age Spanish epic / Christina H. Lee
- The first China hands : the forgotten Iberian origins of sinology / Liam Matthew Brockey
- Matteo Ricci on China via Samuel Purchas : faithful re-presentation / Nicholas Koss
- Representations of China and Europe in the writings of Diego de Pantoja : accommodating the East or privileging the West? / Robert Richmond Ellis
- Women in the eyes of a Jesuit between the East Indies, New Spain, and early modern Europe / Haruko Nawata Ward
- Chinos in sixteenth-century Spain / Juan Gil
- Native vassals : chinos, indigenous identity, and legal protection in early modern Spain / Tatiana Seijas
- Travelers from afar through civic spaces : the Tenshō embassy in Renaissance Italy / Marco Musillo
- The Borghese papacy's reception of a samurai delegation and its fresco-image at Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome / Mayu Fujikawa
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Description
Bringing to bear the latest developments across various areas of research and disciplines, this collection provides a broad perspective on how Western Europe made sense of a complex, multi-faceted, and by and large Sino-centered East and Southeast Asia. The volume covers the transpacific period--after Magellan's opening of the transpacific route to the Far East and before the eventual dominance of the region by the British and the Dutch. In contrast to the period of the Enlightenment, during which Orientalist discourses arose, this initial period of encounters and conquest is characterized by an enormous curiosity and a desire to seize--not only materially but intellectually--the lands and peoples of East Asia. The essays investigate European visions of the Far East--particularly of China and Japan--and examine how and why particular representations of Asians and their cultural practices were constructed, revised, and adapted. Collectively, the essays show that images of the Far East were filtered by worldviews that ranged from being, on the one hand, universalistic and relatively equitable towards cultures to the other extreme, unilaterally Eurocentric.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction: Europe's encounter of Asia in early modernity
- Part 1 Imagining the Far East from Europe: 'The Indies of the West' or, the tale of how an imaginary geography circumnavigated the globe, Ricardo PadrA^3n
- Imagining China in a golden age Spanish epic, Christina H. Lee. Part 2 Discovering the Far East: The first China hands: the forgotten Iberian origins of Sinology, Liam Matthew Brockey
- Matteo Ricci on China via Samuel Purchas: faithful re-presentation, Nicholas Koss
- Representations of China and Europe in the writings of Diego de Pantoja: accommodating the East or privileging the West? Robert Richmond Ellis
- Women in the eyes of a Jesuit between the East Indies, New Spain, and early modern Europe, Haruko Natawa Ward. Part 3 Sightings of the Far East in Europe: Chinos in 16th-century Spain, Juan Gil
- Native vassals: Chinos, indigenous identity, and legal protection in early modern Spain, Tatiana Seijas
- Travelers from afar through civic spaces: the Tensho embassy in Renaissance Italy, Marco Musillo
- The Borghese papacy's reception of a samurai delegation and its fresco-image at Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome, Mayu Fujikawa
- Bibliography
- Index.
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