Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I, Book 2

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The Century of Discovery Written by Donald F. Lach Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe series is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the...

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The Century of Discovery

Written by Donald F. Lach

Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe series is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history.

Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together “everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders’ accounts and maps” (The New York Review of Books). Volume II: examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.

Book Two
7. Southeast Asia
1. The Printed Sources in Review
2. Malaya, the Crossroads of Asia
3. Siam
4. Burma
5. Indochina
6. Sumatra, Borneo, and Java
7. The Spiceries
8. The Philippine Islands
8. Japan
1. First Notices
2. “The Best [People] Who Have Yet Been Discovered”
3. The Successors of Xavier, 1552-85
4. A Japanese Mission in Europe, 1584-86
5. Maps, Histories, and Polemics in Europe, 1585-1601
9. China
1. Behind the Portuguese Curtain, 1520-50
2. Mendoza’s Book and Its Sources
3. The “Mightie Kingdome”
A. Political Entity, Organization, and Administration
B. Economic Resources and Crafts
C. Customs, Social Practices, and Learning
D. Military Weakness, Trade, and the Tribute System
E. Criticism and Evaluation
4. The Jesuit Writings
5. The Evidence of Maps
10. Epilogue: A Composite Picture

Volume 1, Book 2, Paperback, 504 pages, illustrated with 23 halftones and 9 maps, notes, extensive general and chapter bibliographies, index, publisher's list price Cn$89.95

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I, Book 2

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