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Failures east and west : cultural encounters between East Asia and Europe / edited by Ralf Hertel and Kirsten Sandrock.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edinburgh East Asian Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural relations in literature.
- Failure (Psychology) in literature.
- International relations.
- East Asia--Relations--Europe.
- East Asia.
- Europe--Relations--East Asia.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]
- Summary:
- Bringing together scholars working across Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, English Studies and French Studies, this book presents new perspectives on instances of failed intercultural encounters by theorizing epistemologies of failure.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Failures East and West - Cultural Encounters between East Asia and Europe
- Part I Travellers and Failures
- 1 Imagining East Asia: The Failure of National Knowledge in Richard Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations of the English Nation (1589-1600)
- 2 Fact and Fiction in the Writings of Wilhelm Joest about His Journey on Formosa in 1880
- 3 'An Honest Failure': Simone de Beauvoir in China
- 4 Lost in Laos: Failure in Henri Mouhot's and Stephen Greenblatt's Travel Writing
- Part II Encounters at Court
- 5 Louis XIV and the Kingdom of Siam: The Development and Failure of a Particular Example of Diplomatic and Intercultural Relations in the Colonial Era
- 6 Gender, Genre and the Truth Condition: Failure in Anna Leonowens's The English Governess at the Siamese Court
- 7 Chinese Kotow and European Handshake: Episodes in the History of Intercultural Etiquette in China around 1900
- Part III Contemporary Failures
- 8 Barthes and Bouvier in Japan: The Difficult Dialogue between Semiotics and Intercultural Communication
- 9 Between Failure and Empowerment: Historicity, Genre and Cultural Clashes in David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- 10 Marx between East and West: The Karl Marx Statue in Trier as an Example of Intercultural Failure?
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hertel, Ralf Failures East and West
- ISBN:
- 1-3995-0053-8
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