Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction: Failures East and West – Cultural Encounters between East Asia and Europe 1
6. Part I Travellers and Failures
7. 1 Imagining East Asia: The Failure of National Knowledge in Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations of the English Nation (1589–1600) 15
8. 2 Fact and Fiction in the Writings of Wilhelm Joest about His Journey on Formosa in 1880 29
9. 3 ‘An Honest Failure’: Simone de Beauvoir in China 49
10. 4 Lost in Laos: Failure in Henri Mouhot’s and Stephen Greenblatt’s Travel Writing 66
11. Part II Encounters at Court
12. 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 85
13. 6 Gender, Genre and the Truth Condition: Failure in Anna Leonowens’s The English Governess at the Siamese Court 102
14. 7 Chinese Kotow and European Handshake: Episodes in the History of Intercultural Etiquette in China around 1900 118
15. Part III Contemporary Failures
16. 8 Barthes and Bouvier in Japan: The Difficult Dialogue between Semiotics and Intercultural Communication 137
17. 9 Between Failure and Empowerment: Historicity, Genre and Cultural Clashes in David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet 152
18. 10 Marx between East and West: The Karl Marx Statue in Trier as an Example of Intercultural Failure? 170
19. Index 188