Early Encounters Between East Asia and Europe: Telling Failures

ISBN-13: 9780367882006 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 184 str.

Ralf Hertel; Michael Keevak

Opis

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 i

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CONTENTS

Preface

Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction: Telling Failures—Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe







Ralf Hertel and Michael Keevak





Part 1: Trade









2. A Failure far from Heroic: Early European Encounters with ‘Far Eastern’ Slavery







Rotem Kowner









3. Faking It: The Invention of East Asia in Early Modern England

Ralf Hertel

Part 2: Embassies

4 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

Inke Gunia

5 The ‘catastrophe of this new Chinese mission’: The Amherst Embassy to China of 1816

Peter J. Kitson

Part 3: Religion

6 Failed Missions in Early Korean Encounters with ‛Western Learning’

Marion Eggert

7 The Christian Manchu Missions during the Qing Period (1644–1911): Perceptions and Political Implications

Lars Laamann

Part 4: Knowledge

8 Persian Apples, Chinese Leaves, Arab Beans: Encounters with the East in Neo-Latin Didactic Poetry

Claudia Schindler

9 Failure, Empire, and the First Portuguese Embassy to China, 1517–1522

Michael Keevak

10 Lessons of Failure: Towards an Ethics of Cross-Cultural Understanding

QS Tong

Index

　

　

O autorze

Ralf Hertel is Professor of English Literature at the University of Trier, Germany. Michael Keevak is Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University, Taiwan.