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Author:   Adele Lee
Publisher:   Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Imprint:   Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9781611475159

ISBN 10:   1611475155
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   25 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: “What’s Past is Prologue” PART ONE: RENAISSANCE ENGLAND Chapter One: Decrypting Dee’s Dreams: An Elizabethan Magus and the Search for Cathay Chapter Two: “Dumb Shewes of (Dis)Curtesie”: England’s First Encounter with China Chapter Three: “Naturalised Japanners”: “Samurai William” and the English in Hirado, 1613–1623 PART TWO: THE ASIAN RENAISSANCE Chapter Four: (RE)MADE IN CHINA: Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century Chapter Five: “Sheikusupia to Nippon”: Paradox, Parody and Pastiche Afterword: The Rise of East Asia and the Future of Early Modern Studies Bibliography Index

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As impressively insightful and informative as it is deftly written and exceptionally well organized, The English Renaissance and the Far East: Cross-Cultural Encounters is an extraordinary work of original and seminal scholarship. * Midwest Book Review *

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Adele Lee is assistant professor in Early Modern Literature at Emerson College.

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