Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age, 1522-1657

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-10904-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 389 g

Reihe: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Christina H

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Europe’s Encounter of Asia in Early Modernity; Part 1 Imagining the Far East from Europe; Chapter 1 “The Indies of the West” or, the Tale of How an Imaginary Geography Circumnavigated the Globe, Ricardo Padrón; Chapter 2 1A preliminary version of this essay was presented at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Venice (Italy) on April 10, 2010., Christina H. Lee; Part 2 Discovering the Far East; Chapter 3 The First China Hands: The Forgotten Iberian Origins of Sinology, Liam Matthew Brockey; Chapter 4 Matteo Ricci on China via Samuel Purchas: Faithful Re-Presentation, Nicholas Koss; Chapter 5 Representations of China and Europe in the Writings of Diego de Pantoja: Accommodating the East or Privileging the West?, Robert Richmond Ellis; Chapter 6 Women in the Eyes of a Jesuit Between the East Indies, New Spain, and Early Modern Europe, Haruko Nawata Ward; Part 3 Sightings of the Far East in Europe; Chapter 7 1A preliminary version of this study was published under the title “Chinos en España en el siglo XVI” in Studia (Centro de Estudios de Historia e Cartografía Antiga, Lisbon) 58–9 (–2002): 11–41. This article was translated by Julia Farmer, Christina Lee, and Alani Hicks-Barlett., Juan Gil; Chapter 8 Native Vassals: Chinos, Indigenous Identity, and Legal Protection in Early Modern Spain, Tatiana Seijas; Chapter 9 Travelers from Afar through Civic Spaces: The Tensh? Embassy in Renaissance Italy, Marco Musillo; Chapter 10 The Borghese Papacy’s Reception of a Samurai Delegation and Its Fresco-Image at the Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome, Mayu Fujikawa;

Über Autor(innen)

Christina H. Lee is Research Scholar with Continuing Appointment in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University, USA.