Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe (eBook, PDF)

Telling Failures
Redaktion: Hertel, Ralf; Keevak, Michael

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Countering a tendency in scholarship to overlook unsuccessful encounters, it starts from the assumption that failures can prove highly illuminating and provide valuable insights into both the specific shapes and limitations of East Asian and Western imaginations of the Other, as well as of the nature of East-West interaction. Interdisciplinary in outlook, this collection brings together the perspectives of sinology, Japanese and Korean studies, historical studies, literary studies, art history, religious studies, and performance studies. The subjects discussed are manifold and range from missionary accounts, travel reports, letters and trade documents to fictional texts as well as material objects (such as tea, chinaware, or nautical instruments) exchanged between East and West. In order to avoid a Eurocentric perspective, the collection balances approaches from the fields of English literature, Spanish studies, Neo-Latin studies, and art history with those of sinology, Japanese studies, and Korean studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317147190
• Artikelnr.: 48792921

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS



Preface

Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction: Telling Failures-Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe




Ralf Hertel and Michael Keevak



Part 1: Trade


2. A Failure far from Heroic: Early European Encounters with 'Far Eastern' Slavery




Rotem Kowner




3. 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