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Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe
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Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe

Telling Failures

Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe

Telling Failures

Edited ByRalf Hertel, Michael Keevak
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 14 July 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315578385
Pages 192 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315578385
SubjectsArts, Humanities, Language & Literature
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Hertel, R. (Ed.), Keevak, M. (Ed.). (2017). Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315578385

While inquiries into early encounters between East Asia and the West have traditionally focused on successful interactions, this collection inquires into the many forms of failure, experienced on all sides, in the period before 1850. 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. It includes an introduction mapping out the field of failures in early modern encounters between East Asia and Europe, as well as a theoretically minded essay on the lessons of failure and the ethics of cross-cultural understanding.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|9 pages
Introduction
Telling Failures—Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe
ByRalf Hertel, Michael Keevak
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part 1|39 pages
Trade
chapter 2|20 pages
A Failure Far from Heroic
Early European Encounters with ‘Far Eastern’ Slavery
ByRotem Kowner
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chapter 3|19 pages
Faking It
The Invention of East Asia in Early Modern England
ByRalf Hertel
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part 2|33 pages
Embassies
chapter 4|16 pages
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
ByInke Gunia
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chapter 5|17 pages
The ‘Catastrophe of This New Chinese Mission’
The Amherst Embassy to China of 1816
ByPeter J. Kitson
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part |37 pages
Religion
chapter 6|16 pages
Failed Missions in Early Korean Encounters with ‘Western Learning’
ByMarion Eggert
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chapter 7|21 pages
The Christian Manchu Missions during the Qing Period (1644–1911)
Perceptions and Political Implications
ByLars Peter Laamann
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part 4|49 pages
Knowledge
chapter 8|19 pages
Persian Apples, Chinese Leaves, Arab Beans
Encounters with the East in Neo-Latin Didactic Poetry 1
ByClaudia Schindler
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chapter 9|14 pages
Failure, Empire, and the First Portuguese Embassy to China, 1517–1522
ByMichael Keevak
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chapter 10|16 pages
Lessons of Failure
Toward an Ethics of Cross-Cultural Understanding
ByQ.S. Tong
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