Failures East and West : : Cultural Encounters between East Asia and Europe /

Failures East and West : : Cultural Encounters between East Asia and Europe / / ed. by Ralf Hertel, Kirsten Sandrock.

Examines why and how cultural encounters between East Asia and Europe are framed as failures Opens up fresh perspectives on intercultural encounters by focusing on failures as a paradigm Argues that a focus on failure helps to uncover the normative perspectives and expectations of intercultural enco...

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MitwirkendeR:
Altenburger, Roland,
Demeulenaere, Alex,
HerausgeberIn:
Hertel, Ralf,
Sandrock, Kirsten,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh East Asian Studies : EEAS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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