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Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age, 1522-1657
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Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age, 1522-1657

Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age, 1522-1657

Edited ByChristina H. Lee
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 17 February 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547503
Pages 242 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315547503
SubjectsArts, Humanities, Language & Literature
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Lee, C. (Ed.). (2012). Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age, 1522-1657. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547503

Bringing to bear the latest developments across various areas of research and disciplines, 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. The volume covers the transpacific period--after Magellan's opening of the transpacific route to the Far East and before the eventual dominance of the region by the British and the Dutch. In contrast to the period of the Enlightenment, during which Orientalist discourses arose, this initial period of encounters and conquest is characterized by an enormous curiosity and a desire to seize--not only materially but intellectually--the lands and peoples of East Asia. The essays investigate European visions of the Far East--particularly of China and Japan--and examine how and why particular representations of Asians and their cultural practices were constructed, revised, and adapted. Collectively, the essays show that images of the Far East were filtered by worldviews that ranged from being, on the one hand, universalistic and relatively equitable towards cultures to the other extreme, unilaterally Eurocentric.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction: Europe’s Encounter of Asia in Early Modernity
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part |2 pages
Part 1 Imagining the Far East from Europe
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chapter 1|24 pages
“The Indies of the West” or, the Tale of How an Imaginary Geography Circumnavigated the Globe
ByRicardo Padrón
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chapter 2|24 pages
Imagining China in a Golden Age Spanish Epic
ByChristina H. Lee
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part |2 pages
Part 2 Discovering the Far East
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chapter 3|16 pages
The First China Hands: The Forgotten Iberian Origins of Sinology
ByLiam Matthew Brockey
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chapter 4|16 pages
Matteo Ricci on China via Samuel Purchas: Faithful Re-Presentation
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chapter 5|16 pages
Representations of China and Europe in the Writings of Diego de Pantoja: Accommodating the East or Privileging the West?
ByRobert Richmond Ellis
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chapter 6|20 pages
Women in the Eyes of a Jesuit Between the East Indies, New Spain, and Early Modern Europe
ByHaruko Nawata Ward
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part |2 pages
Part 3 Sightings of the Far East in Europe
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chapter 7|14 pages
Chinos in Sixteenth-Century Spain
ByJuan Gil
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chapter 8|12 pages
Native Vassals: Chinos, Indigenous Identity, and Legal Protection in Early Modern Spain
ByTatiana Seijas
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chapter 9|16 pages
Travelers from Afar through Civic Spaces: The Tenshō Embassy in Renaissance Italy
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chapter 10|22 pages
The Borghese Papacy’s Reception of a Samurai Delegation and Its Fresco-Image at the Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome
ByMayu Fujikawa
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