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 by Christina H. Lee.

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Covering the transpacific period--in between Magellan's opening of the transpacific route to the Far East and the eventual dominance of the region by the British and the Dutch--this collection provides a broad perspective on how Western Europe made sense of a complex, multi-faceted, and by and...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Lee, Christina H., 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2012.
Series:Transculturalisms, 1400-1700.
Subjects:
1500-1699
Public opinion > Europe > History.
Intellectual life.
Public opinion.
Public opinion, European.
International relations.
Europe > Relations > China.
China > Relations > Europe.
Europe > Relations > East Asia.
East Asia > Relations > Europe.
Europe > Intellectual life > 16th century.
Europe > Intellectual life > 17th century.
China > Foreign public opinion, European > History.
East Asia > Foreign public opinion, European > History.
China.
East Asia.
Europe.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Christina H. Lee
  • "The Indies of the West" or, The tale of how an imaginary geography circumnavigated the globe / Ricardo PadroĢn
  • Imagining China in a Golden Age Spanish epic / Christina H. Lee
  • The first China hands : the forgotten Iberian origins of sinology / Liam Matthew Brockey
  • Matteo Ricci on China via Samuel Purchas : faithful re-presentation / Nicholas Kos
  • 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
  • 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.

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