Asia in the Making of Europe : Bk. 2, Vol. 1: The Century of Discovery

Praised for its scope and depth, __Asia in the Making of Europe__ 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: A Century of Wonder__ examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe. Annotation Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europeis 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 Discoverybrings 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: A Century of Wonderexamines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe First Systematic, Inclusive Study Of The Impact Of The High Civilizations Of Asia On The Development Of Modern Western Civilization. V. 1. The Century Of Discovery (book 1-2) -- V. 2. A Century Of Wonder. Book 1. The Visual Arts. Book 2. The Literary Arts. Book 3. The Scholarly Disciplines -- V. 3. A Century Of Advance. Book 1. Trade, Missions, Literature. Book 2. South Asia. Book 3. Southeast Asia. Book 4. East Asia. Donald F. Lach. Vol. 3 Co-authored By Edwin J. Van Kley. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In our definition, southeast Asia divides into two vast geographical groupings: the continental peninsulas east of Bengal and south of China, and the insular world which lies within a vast triangle that has Sumatra, the Philippines, and New Guinea at its vertices. v.1. The century of discovery (2 v.) v. 2. A century of wonder. Book 1. The visual arts. Book 2. The literary arts. Book 3. The scholarly disciplines (3 v.) In the dim obscurity of the Homeric age (pre-eighth century), the Greeks may possibly have heard tales of India and of the peoples farther to the east.