This book is an original and timely examination of cultural encounters between Britain, China and Japan. It challenges accepted Anglocentric models of East-West relations and, in doing so, offers a radical reconceptualization of the English Renaissance, suggesting it was not so different from current developments in an increasingly Sinocentric world, and that as China, in particular, returns to a global center-stage that it last occupied pre-1800, a curious and overlooked synergy exists between the early modern and the present. Prompted by the current eastward tilt in global power, in...
This book is an original and timely examination of cultural encounters between Britain, China and Japan. It challenges accepted Anglocentric models of...
