O. R. Dathorne pursues the phenomenon of "contact" or
"encounter" particularly as it relates to China and the islands of
the Pacific Ocean. He looks at how the Chinese have perceived their
Other as heathen and exotic, and how the West has in turn similarly
perceived the Chinese. The failure of the West to relate to China
in human terms is subtly documented, and is contrasted to the
European experience in the New World and the African encounter of
both China and the West. Dathorne breaks new ground in his analysis
of the construct of the Other on the Pacific Islands. Using
indigenous oral accounts, early texts of European explorers and
castaways, and imaginative accounts, he reconstructs the period of
contact from the native viewpoint, of those who acted as
translators, pilots, guides, chartmakers and male and female
companions. He calls attention to the Western habit of romancing
the place while denigrating or mythologizing the people.
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