First Globalization The Eurasian Exchange,

First Globalization presents an original and sweeping conceptualization of the grand cultural-civilizational encounter between Asia and Europe. With his metageography of the vast Eurasian zone, Gunn shows how between 1500 and 1800, a lively two-way flow in ideas, philosophies, and cultural products brought competing civilizations into serious dialogue and mostly peaceful exchange. Ranging from discussions of the natural world, livelihoods, and religious and intellectual encounters to language, play, crime and punishment, gender, and governance, this book replays the themes of enduring hybridity and creolization of cultures. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Geoffrey C. Gunn teaches international relations in the Faculty of Economics of Nagasaki University.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Glossary

xiii

List of Illustrations

xvii

Introduction

1

(1)

First Globlazation

2

(2)

Oriental Texts and the Rise of the European Canon

4

(2)

Eurocentricity versus the Eurasian Exchange

6

(2)

Eurasia as Region

8

(2)

The Southeast Asia Region?

10

(1)

Defining the Eurasian Maritime World System

11

(2)

The Book

13

(4)

The Discovery Canon

17

(20)

Medieval Travelers

17

(3)

The Iberian Discovery Literature

20

(3)

The Portuguese Histories

23

(2)

The Great European Collections

25

(5)

Arab-Iberian Crossovers

30

(2)

The Varenius Revolution in Geography

32

(2)

Conclusion

34

(3)

Historical Confabulators and Literary Geographers

37

(22)

Constructions of Europe and the Literary Classics

38

(2)

Tradition of the Fantastic

40

(2)

Fantastic Science

42

(3)

The Prester John Myth?

45

(2)

Literary Utopias

47

(3)

Terra Australis Incognita

50

(2)

Psalmanazar's Formosa: Science as Fiction

52

(1)

Remote Island Fantasies

53

(2)

Swift's Japan

55

(1)

Bougainville, Diderot, Rousseau, and Paradise Lost

56

(1)

Conclusion

57

(2)

Observations on Nature

59

(26)

Great Asian Herbals and Floras

60

(5)

The Lure of Spices and Other Riches

65

(2)

Global Plant Exchanges

67

(4)

Reverse Flow

71

(3)

The Plant Hunters

74

(3)

The Bounds of the Natural World

77

(5)

Conclusion

82

(3)

Catholic Cosmologies

85

(28)

Jesuitas na Asia: The Jesuits in Asia

86

(1)

The Goa Press

87

(1)

The Macau Press

88

(1)

The Nagasaki Press

89

(3)

The Beijing Press

92

(1)

The Manila Press

92

(2)

The Church Canon on Asia

94

(7)

The Visual Arts in Religious Propagation

101

(3)

Alterities, Heresies, and Hybrid Cosmologies

104

(4)

The Rites Controversy

108

(1)

Conclusion

109

(4)

Mapping Eurasia

113

(32)

The Rise of European Map Culture

113

(2)

Overcoming Ptolemy/Polo

115

(1)

Incorporating New Cartesian Geography

116

(4)

Atlases and Globes

120

(3)

Map Representations of Siberia and Central Asia

123

(1)

Mapping China

124

(3)

The European Mapping of Japan

127

(3)

Map Production in Japan

130

(2)

Korea Mapped

132

(1)

Mapping Vietnam and Siam

133

(1)

Mapping the Eastern Archipelago

134

(4)

Imagining Asia

138

(3)

Conclusion

141

(4)

Enlightenment Views of Asian Governance

145

(24)

Enlightenment Views of Governance in China

146

(3)

Engelbert Kaempfer and Japanese Despotism

149

(3)

Hendrik Hamel's Korea

152

(1)

Islamic Courts

153

(1)

Jean-Baptist Tavernier's Travels in India

154

(1)

Augustin de Beaulieu at the Sultanate of Aceh

155

(2)

Montesquieu, the Seraglio, and the Slavery of Women

157

(1)

Hindu-Buddhistic Kingdoms

158

(1)

Gaspero Baldi at the Court of Pegu

158

(1)

Henry Hagenaar at the Cambodian Court

159

(1)

Gerald Hulft at the Court of Kandy

160

(2)

Europe at the Court of Siam---Siam at the Court of Europe

162

(2)

Voltaire on Brahmin India

164

(1)

Dutch Justice in Asia

165

(2)

Conclusion

167

(2)

Civilizational Encounters

169

(30)

The Mongol Exchange

170

(1)

The Sinic View of the Universe

171

(1)

The Jesuit Reception in China

172

(2)

Chinese Ethnocentricity?

174

(3)

Chinese Rejection of Western Science

177

(1)

Vietnam and the Chinese Model

178

(2)

The Japanese Reception of Europe

180

(6)

An Example from Korea

186

(1)

Symbolic Space in Indic Cosmography

187

(3)

Darul Islam: The World of Islam

190

(4)

The Animist World View: An Example from the Marianas

194

(1)

Conclusion

195

(4)

Livelihoods

199

(24)

Iberian Views of Sixteenth-Century China

200

(2)

Luis Frois's Japan

202

(2)

Urban Society

204

(3)

Music, Dancing, and Festivals

207

(2)

Fashion, Style, and Attire

209

(3)

Culinary Encounters: William Dampier in Vietnam

212

(1)

Gendered Violence

213

(5)

Crime and Punishment

218

(3)

Conclusion

221

(2)

Language, Power, and Hegemony in European Oriental Studies

223

(26)

The European Study of Asian Languages

223

(2)

Translating the Arabic World

225

(3)

Indology

228

(3)

Dunia Melayu: Malay World

231

(4)

The Extinction of Tagalog Script

235

(2)

Learning Chinese

237

(3)

Rangaku: Japanese Lexicology

240

(2)

The Jesuit Invention of Quoc Ngu

242

(1)

Translating Buddhist Asia

243

(2)

Orientalism Revisited

245

(1)

Conclusion

246

(3)

A Theory of Global Culturalization

249

(26)

Creole Cultures, Creoles, and Creolization

250

(4)

Portuguese as First World Language

254

(5)

The Little World of the Macanese and Timorese

259

(3)

Mexico-Spanish-Philippines Cultural Transactions

262

(2)

Cultural Crossovers

264

(5)

Portugalized/Hispanicized Toponyms

269

(2)

Conclusion

271

(4)

Conclusion

275

(10)

The Eurasia Exchange

275

(3)

Roots of Divergence?

278

(3)

The Creolization Effect

281

(1)

Envoi on Orientalism

282

(1)

Lessons of Global History

283

(2)

References

285

(40)

Index

325

(18)

About the Author

343

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