Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-8167-2 (ISBN)
Ralf Hertel is Professor of English Literature at the University of Trier, Germany. Michael Keevak is Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
CONTENTS
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Telling Failures—Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe
Ralf Hertel and Michael Keevak
Part 1: Trade
A Failure far from Heroic: Early European Encounters with ‘Far Eastern’ Slavery
Rotem Kowner
Faking It: The Invention of East Asia in Early Modern England
Ralf Hertel
Part 2: Embassies
4 The Travel Report of the Castilian Embassy to the Court of Tamerlane at Samarkand (1403–1406): The Failed Response from Tamerlane to King Henry III of Castile and León
Inke Gunia
5 The ‘catastrophe of this new Chinese mission’: The Amherst Embassy to China of 1816
Peter J. Kitson
Part 3: Religion
6 Failed Missions in Early Korean Encounters with ‛Western Learning’
Marion Eggert
7 The Christian Manchu Missions during the Qing Period (1644–1911): Perceptions and Political Implications
Lars Laamann
Part 4: Knowledge
8 Persian Apples, Chinese Leaves, Arab Beans: Encounters with the East in Neo-Latin Didactic Poetry
Claudia Schindler
9 Failure, Empire, and the First Portuguese Embassy to China, 1517–1522
Michael Keevak
10 Lessons of Failure: Towards an Ethics of Cross-Cultural Understanding
QS Tong
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 23.06.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | Transculturalisms, 1400-1700 |
Zusatzinfo | 7 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 430 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4724-8167-4 / 1472481674 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4724-8167-2 / 9781472481672 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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