Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age, 1522-1657 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Lee, Christina H.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Covering the transpacific period--in between Magellan's opening of the transpacific route to the Far East and the eventual dominance of the region by the British and the Dutch--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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134759521
• Artikelnr.: 44781800

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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;