Western visions of the Far East in a transpacific age, 1522-1657 - Lee, Christina Hyo Jung 1973-. (Surrey, England Ashgate, 2012)
Introduction / Christina H. Lee -- "The Indies of the West" or, The tale of how an imaginary geography circumnavigated the globe / Ricardo Padrón -- Imagining China in a Golden Age Spanish epic / Christina H. Lee -- The first China hands : the forgotten Iberian origins of sinology / Liam Matthew Brockey -- Matteo Ricci on China via Samuel Purchas : faithful re-presentation / Nicholas Kos -- Representations of China and Europe in the writings of the Spanish Jesuit, Diego de Pantoja : accommodating the East or privileging the West? / Robert Richmond Ellis -- Women in the eyes of a Jesuit between the East Indies, New Spain, and early modern Europe / Haruko Nawata Ward -- Chinos in sixteenth century Spain / Juan Gil -- Native vassals : chinos, indigenous identity, and legal protection in early modern Spain / Tatiana Seijas -- Travelers from afar through civic spaces : the Tensho embassy in Renaissance Italy / Marco Musillo -- The Borghese papacy's reception of a samurai delegation and its fresco image at Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome / Mayu Fujikawa.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Public opinion -- Europe -- History; China -- Foreign public opinion, European -- History; China -- Relations -- Europe; East Asia -- Foreign public opinion, European -- History; East Asia -- Relations -- Europe; Euorpe -- Intellectual life -- 16th century; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century; Europe -- Relations -- China; Europe -- Relations -- East Asia