Western visions of the Far East in a transpacific age, 1522-1657 : edited by Christina H. Lee

Author(s): Lee, Christina Hyo Jung, 1973-

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Main Title
Western visions of the Far East in a transpacific age, 1522-1657
Author(s)
Lee, Christina Hyo Jung, 1973-
Publisher
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012
Collation
227 p. : ill., maps
24 cm.
Series Title
Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
ISBN
9781409408505
Dewey Class
303.4825
Contents
Introduction: Europe's encounter of Asia in early modernity / Christina H. Lee --
Part 1 Imagining the Far East from Europe. "The Indies of the West" or, The tale of how an imaginary geography circumnavigated the globe / Ricardo Padrón -- Imagining China in a Golden Age Spanish epic / Christina H. Lee --
Part 2 Discovering the Far East. The first China hands : the forgotten Iberian origins of sinology / Liam Matthew Brockey -- Matteo Ricci on China via Samuel Purchas : faithful re-presentation / Nicholas Koss -- Representations of China and Europe in the writings of the Spanish Jesuit, Diego de Pantoja : accommodating the East or privileging the West? / Robert Richmond Ellis -- Women in the eyes of a Jesuit between the East Indies, New Spain, and early modern Europe / Haruko Nawata Ward --
Part 3 Sightings of the Far East in Europe. Chinos in sixteenth century Spain / Juan Gil -- Native vassals : chinos, indigenous identity, and legal protection in early modern Spain / Tatiana Seijas -- Travelers from afar through civic spaces : the Tensho embassy in Renaissance Italy / Marco Musillo -- The Borghese papacy's reception of a samurai delegation and its fresco image at Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome / Mayu Fujikawa.
Language
English
Subject
Europe -- Relations -- China.
Public opinion -- Europe -- History.
BRN
4963

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