Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age, 1522-1657
Bringing to bear the latest developments across various areas of research and disciplines, this collection provides a broad perspective on how Western Europe made sense of a complex, multi-faceted, and by and large Sino-centered East and Southeast Asia. The volume covers the transpacific period--after Magellan's opening of the transpacific route to the Far East and before the eventual dominance of the region by the British and the Dutch. In contrast to the period of the Enlightenment, during which Orientalist discourses arose, this initial period of encounters and conquest is characterized by an enormous curiosity and a desire to seize--not o…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-134-75952-1
- EAN: 9781134759521
- Produktnummer: 20167640
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 242 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'845 KB
Über den Autor
Christina H. Lee is Research Scholar with Continuing Appointment in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University, USA.
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