Download or read book Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age 1522 1657 written by Dr Christina H Lee and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-10-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing to bear the latest developments across various areas of research and disciplines, this collection provides a broad perspective on how Western Europe made sense of a complex, multi-faceted, and by and large Sino-centered East and Southeast Asia. The volume covers the transpacific period--after Magellan's opening of the transpacific route to the Far East and before the eventual dominance of the region by the British and the Dutch. In contrast to the period of the Enlightenment, during which Orientalist discourses arose, this initial period of encounters and conquest is characterized by an enormous curiosity and a desire to seize--not only materially but intellectually--the lands and peoples of East Asia. The essays investigate European visions of the Far East--particularly of China and Japan--and examine how and why particular representations of Asians and their cultural practices were constructed, revised, and adapted. Collectively, the essays show that images of the Far East were filtered by worldviews that ranged from being, on the one hand, universalistic and relatively equitable towards cultures to the other extreme, unilaterally Eurocentric.

Download or read book The British in the Far East written by George Woodcock and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Taste of the Far East written by Madhur Jaffrey and published by Random House. This book was released on 1997 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TASTE OF THE FAR EAST is a classic evocation of the region's food and drink, a gastronomic tour of some truly exotic places. Madhur Jaffrey, with her great enthusiasm, delves deeply into local traditions and history to describe the cultural and culinary influences that have shaped each nation's unique cuisine. The 180 recipes she has selected reflect this diversity, and she knowledgeably provides introductions describing local traditions and produce. Rich in anecdotes and humour, Madhur Jaffrey's book is a mouth-watering introduction and companion to some of the world's most delicious foods.

Download or read book Travels in the Far East written by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sport and Travel in the Far East written by Joseph Clark Grew and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The English Renaissance and the Far East written by Adele Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Renaissance and the Far East: Cross-Cultural Encounters is an original and timely examination of cultural encounters between Britain, China, and Japan. It challenges accepted, Anglocentric models of East-West relations and offers a radical reconceptualization of the English Renaissance, suggesting it was not so different from current developments in an increasingly Sinocentric world, and that as China, in particular, returns to a global center-stage that it last occupied pre-1800, a curious and overlooked synergy exists between the early modern and the present. Prompted by the current eastward tilt in global power, in particular towards China, Adele Lee examines cultural interactions between Britain and the Far East in both the early modern and postmodern periods. She explores how key encounters with and representations of the Far East are described in early modern writing, and demonstrates how work of that period, particularly Shakespeare, has a special power today to facilitate encounters between Britain and East Asia. Readers will find the past illuminating the present and vice versa in a book that has at its heart resonances between Renaissance and present-day cultural exchanges, and which takes a cyclical, “long-view” of history to offer a new, innovative approach to a subject of contemporary importance.

Download or read book Far East Chinese for Youth Level 2 Simplified Character written by Wei-ling Wu and published by The Far East Book Co Ltd. This book was released on 2001 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Far East and the English Imagination 1600 1730 written by Robert Markley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-12 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2006 investigation of the idea of the powerful Asian empires in the works of Milton, Dryden, Defoe and Swift.

Download or read book Gods from the Far East written by Henriette Mertz and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East written by Baird Thomas Spalding and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Heart of Asia written by Roy Chapman Andrews and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Heart of Asia" by Roy Chapman Andrews. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book The Soul of the Far East written by Percival Lowell and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with East Asian civilization in general, although it focuses principally on Japan.

Download or read book Problems of the Far East Japan Korea China written by George Nathaniel Curzon Marquis of Curzon and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Russian Far East written by John J. Stephan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a quarter-century of research by a leading authority on the area, this is a monumental survey from prehistoric times to the present. Drawing from political, diplomatic, economic, geographical, social, and cultural evidence, the book reveals that this vast, rugged, and supposedly insular land has harbored vibrantly cosmopolitan lifestyles.

Download or read book Codebreaker in the Far East written by Alan Stripp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to describe British wartime success in breaking Japanese codes of dazzling variety and great complexity which contributed to the victory in Burma three months before Hiroshima. Written for the general reader, this first-hand account describes the difficulty of decoding one of the most complex languages in the world in some of the most difficult conditions. The book was published in 1989 to avoid proposed legislation which would prohibit those in the security services from publishing secret information.

Download or read book Rick Stein s Far Eastern Odyssey written by Rick Stein and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tie-in cookery book to the TV series, Rick shares his new-found knowledge, recreating the tantalizing food of his travels and capturing on the plate the rich and varying cultures of the Far East. With over 150 new recipes and breathtaking on-location photography, this book evokes the magic of bustling markets, exotic locations and exciting flavours.

Download or read book Far East of the Sun written by Janina Stankiewicz Chung and published by The Reed Edwards Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores another side of World War II, that of the displaced person. The author and her family endured thirteen years of life under Communist oppression in Russia, forced relocation to Hitler's Germany and its hellish concentration camps, and the confusion of postwar displaced persons camps.