Western visions of the Far East in a transpacific age, 1522-1657 / edited by Christina H. Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Christina H., 1973-

Series:

Transculturalisms, 1400-1700

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public opinion.

History.

Relations.

Europe--Relations--China.

Europe.

China.

China--Relations--Europe.

Europe--Relations--East Asia.

East Asia--Relations--Europe.

East Asia.

Europe--Intellectual life--16th century.

Intellectual life.

Europe--Intellectual life--17th century.

China--Foreign public opinion, European--History.

East Asia--Foreign public opinion, European--History.

Public opinion--Europe--History.

Physical Description:

x, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]

Summary:

This collection of essays provides an array of cross-disciplinary perspectives on how Western Europeans made sense of the Far East, largely dominated by Chinese culture, prior to British and Dutch colonialism. To that end, they focus on the period between 1522 and 1657. The editor, Christina Lee (Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton U.), argues in her introduction that these perspectives differed from the Orientalism of later English and French writers during the Enlightenment, and avoid the worst of its sinophilic/phobic fetishizing. Organization is in three sections, the first exploring how cartography and literature provided the field for imagining East Asia. The second turns to European travel journals and their portrayal of China and Japan, most focusing on accounts by missionaries. The third part switches from Europeans in East Asia to Japanese and Chinese migrants and visitors in Europe. The contributors are professors and scholars of art history, romance languages and literature, philology, and Church history. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction / Christina H. Lee

"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 Kos

Representations of China and Europe in the writings of the Spanish Jesuit, 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 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409408505

1409408507

9781409452362

1409452360

OCLC:

780334256