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Encountering China addresses the responses of early modern
travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of
the society they encountered, attempted primarily to build bridges,
to explore similarities, and to emulate the Chinese, though they
were also critical of some local traditions and practices.
Contributors engage critically with travelogues, treating them not
just as occasional sources of historical information but as
primary, literary texts deeply revelatory of the world they
describe. Contributors reach back to the earliest European writings
available on China in an effort to broaden and nuance our
understanding of European contact with the Middle Kingdom in the
early modern period. While the primary focus of these essays is the
external gaze - European sources about China - contributors also
tease out aspects of the Chinese world-view of the time, thus
generating a conversation between Chinese literary and historical
texts and European ones.
Encountering China addresses the responses of early modern
travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of
the society they encountered, attempted primarily to build bridges,
to explore similarities, and to emulate the Chinese, though they
were also critical of some local traditions and practices.
Contributors engage critically with travelogues, treating them not
just as occasional sources of historical information but as
primary, literary texts deeply revelatory of the world they
describe. Contributors reach back to the earliest European writings
available on China in an effort to broaden and nuance our
understanding of European contact with the Middle Kingdom in the
early modern period. While the primary focus of these essays is the
external gaze - European sources about China - contributors also
tease out aspects of the Chinese world-view of the time, thus
generating a conversation between Chinese literary and historical
texts and European ones.
England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges,
narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature.
Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the
English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped
shape the country's culture and contributed to its national
identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and
West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio as
geographic movement, linguistic transformation, and cultural
grafting, the collection gives pride of place to convergence,
approximation, and hybridity, thus underscoring the radical
mobility of early modern culture. In so doing, England's Asian
Renaissance also moves away from entrenched narratives of Western
cultural sovereignty to think anew England's debts to Asia.
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England's Asian Renaissance (Paperback)
Su Fang Ng, Carmen Nocentelli; Contributions by Abdulhamit Arvas, Richmond Barbour, Thea Buckley, …
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England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges,
narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature.
Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the
English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped
shape the country's culture and contributed to its national
identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and
West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio as
geographic movement, linquistic transformation, and cultural
grafting, the collection gives pride of place to convergence,
approximation, and hybridity, thus underscoring the radical
mobility of early modern culture. In so doing, England's Asian
Renaissance also moves away from entrenched narratives of Western
cultural sovereignty to think anew England's debts to Asia.
Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed
worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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