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Author:   Ralf Hertel ,  Michael Keevak ,  Thijs Weststeijn
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781472481672

ISBN 10:   1472481674
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   11 July 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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CONTENTS Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Telling Failures—Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe Ralf Hertel and Michael Keevak Part 1: Trade A Failure far from Heroic: Early European Encounters with ‘Far Eastern’ Slavery Rotem Kowner Faking It: The Invention of East Asia in Early Modern England Ralf Hertel Part 2: Embassies 4 The Travel Report of the Castilian Embassy to the Court of Tamerlane at Samarkand (1403–1406): The Failed Response from Tamerlane to King Henry III of Castile and León Inke Gunia 5 The ‘catastrophe of this new Chinese mission’: The Amherst Embassy to China of 1816 Peter J. Kitson Part 3: Religion 6 Failed Missions in Early Korean Encounters with ‛Western Learning’ Marion Eggert 7 The Christian Manchu Missions during the Qing Period (1644–1911): Perceptions and Political Implications Lars Laamann Part 4: Knowledge 8 Persian Apples, Chinese Leaves, Arab Beans: Encounters with the East in Neo-Latin Didactic Poetry Claudia Schindler 9 Failure, Empire, and the First Portuguese Embassy to China, 1517–1522 Michael Keevak 10 Lessons of Failure: Towards an Ethics of Cross-Cultural Understanding QS Tong Index

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Ralf Hertel is Professor of English Literature at the University of Trier, Germany. Michael Keevak is Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

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