Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 195 pages)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781399500531
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9781399500524
Series Statement:
Edinburgh East Asian Studies
Content:
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 encountersEstablishes that intercultural encounters add a valuable new perspective to the emerging field of failure studiesOften, the story of encounters between Asia and the West has been told as one of success, of cross-fertilization, reciprocal stimulation and an exchange of commodities and knowledge. Yet, the history of East-West encounters is riddled with prominent examples of misunderstandings, ignorance, unrealistic expectations or unbridgeable cultural differences. Bringing together scholars working across Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, English Studies and French Studies, this book presents new perspectives on such instances by theorizing epistemologies of failure. Providing examples from different periods and disciplines, it reveals how culturally informed expectations and biases, performative and linguistic practices and imaginative horizons specific to the cultures involved shape notions of failure and success. Case studies range from first encounters in the early modern period to contemporary novels and focus on actual or imaginary encounters between East Asia and Western European cultures
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Failures East and West – Cultural Encounters between East Asia and Europe
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Part I Travellers and Failures
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1 Imagining East Asia: The Failure of National Knowledge in Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations of the English Nation (1589–1600)
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2 Fact and Fiction in the Writings of Wilhelm Joest about His Journey on Formosa in 1880
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3 ‘An Honest Failure’: Simone de Beauvoir in China
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4 Lost in Laos: Failure in Henri Mouhot’s and Stephen Greenblatt’s Travel Writing
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Part II Encounters at Court
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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
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6 Gender, Genre and the Truth Condition: Failure in Anna Leonowens’s The English Governess at the Siamese Court
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7 Chinese Kotow and European Handshake: Episodes in the History of Intercultural Etiquette in China around 1900
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Part III Contemporary Failures
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8 Barthes and Bouvier in Japan: The Difficult Dialogue between Semiotics and Intercultural Communication
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9 Between Failure and Empowerment: Historicity, Genre and Cultural Clashes in David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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10 Marx between East and West: The Karl Marx Statue in Trier as an Example of Intercultural Failure?
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Index
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781399500517
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Failures East and West Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023 ISBN 1399500511
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781399500517
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Europa
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Asien
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Kulturkontakt
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Misserfolg
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Geschichte
DOI:
10.1515/9781399500531
Author information:
Hertel, Ralf 1973-
