Failures East and West : cultural encounters between East Asia and Europe /
Bringing together scholars working across Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, English Studies and French Studies, this book presents new perspectives on instances of failed intercultural encounters by theorizing epistemologies of failure.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Edinburgh East Asian Studies series.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/jj.1011831 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Failures East and West
- Cultural Encounters between East Asia and Europe
- Part I Travellers and Failures
- 1 Imagining East Asia: The Failure of National Knowledge in Richard Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations of the English Nation (1589-1600)
- 2 Fact and Fiction in the Writings of Wilhelm Joest about His Journey on Formosa in 1880
- 3 'An Honest Failure': Simone de Beauvoir in China
- 4 Lost in Laos: Failure in Henri Mouhot's and Stephen Greenblatt's Travel Writing
- Part II Encounters at Court
- 5 Louis XIV and the Kingdom of Siam: The Development and Failure of a Particular Example of Diplomatic and Intercultural Relations in the Colonial Era
- 6 Gender, Genre and the Truth Condition: Failure in Anna Leonowens's The English Governess at the Siamese Court
- 7 Chinese Kotow and European Handshake: Episodes in the History of Intercultural Etiquette in China around 1900
- Part III Contemporary Failures
- 8 Barthes and Bouvier in Japan: The Difficult Dialogue between Semiotics and Intercultural Communication
- 9 Between Failure and Empowerment: Historicity, Genre and Cultural Clashes in David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- 10 Marx between East and West: The Karl Marx Statue in Trier as an Example of Intercultural Failure?
- Index