Eastern and Western synergies and imaginations texts and histories / edited by Katrine K. Wong.
| Other author | Wong, Katrine K., 1980- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] |
| Description | xi, 306 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | East and West : culture, diplomacy and interactions, 2467-9704 ; volume 8 |
| Contents | Introduction / Katrine K. Wong -- "A being ... from a different world" : Yung Wing and the making of a global subjectivity / Patricia P. Chu -- Maritime links, imperialism, and diaspora in the Ibis trilogy / Shilpa Daithota Bhat -- Utopia and history : Os Lusíadas (Camões) and Uma viagem à Índia (G. Tavares) / Helena Carvalhão Buescu -- "Orientalism from within" in Goa : local textual production in light of the legal and administrative framework of the overseas populations / Everton V. Machado -- Present absences : the East in the story of a port town on the western coast of the Black Sea / Onoriu Colăcel -- Pragmatism and politics intertwined : the West, the East, the Suez Crisis, and inter/national hegemony in James Graham's Eden's empire / Önder Çakırtaş -- A dog of Flanders : of triumphant heroes and heroic losers / Etienne Boumans -- Yeats, Nōh theatre, and the traditions of Asia / Matthew Gibson -- David Henry Hwang's Yellow face in postracial times / Keith Appler -- Imagining Robert Wilson's The three ladies of London in Macao / Katrine K. Wong. |
| Abstract | "The age of globalization - or digital globalization, to be exact - has witnessed, and is witnessing, increasing activities across borders and interactions between nations, typically and especially between the East and the West. Such movement is heavily punctuated with events of expedition, trade, colonialization, and colonialism, as well as religious transmission. Just as tangible entities, such as spices, foods, products, and inventions, can be brought across oceans and continents, so can ideas and practices flow in and out of regions"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020026368 |
| ISBN | 9789004437401 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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