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
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
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.
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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
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
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