Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II: A Century of Wonder. Book 1: The Visual Arts (Asia in the Making of Europe)

Published 1970 Paperback edition 1994 ISBN 0-226-46730-9 (v. 2. bk. 1) ISBN 0-226-46733-3 (v. 2. bk. 2) ISBN 0-226-46734-1 (v. 2. bk. 3) Cloth ISBN: 9780226467504 Published September 1970 Paper ISBN: 9780226467306 Published February 1994 E-book ISBN: 9780226467108 Published January 2010 other cover URL: http://press.uchicago.edu/dms/ucp/books/jacket/0226/46/0226467503.jpeg 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 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. 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 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 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. This is the second volume in a series that traces, century by century, the role of Asia in the making of Europe. The rise to world dominance of the Western nations in modern times and the rapid industrial growth of the West, which outpaced the East in technical and military achievements, have led to a historical eclipse of the ancient and brilliant cultures of Asia. Historican Donald F. Lach, in his influential scholarly work, Asia in the Making of Europe, points out that an eclipse is never permanent, that this one was never total, and that there was a period in early modern times when Asia and Europe were close rivals in brilliance and mutual influence. 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. An analytical ordering of scholarship, consonant with the intellectual activities of the sixteenth century, cannot be made successfully within the framework of modern learning, divided as it is into separate disciplines well insulated one from the other by differences of subject matter and methodology. In the long centuries before the opening of the direct passage to India, learned men certainly looked studiously and wonderingly at the isolated specimens of Asia's arts and crafts which found their way to Europe. In the century of the great overseas discoveries Europeans were struck by wonder at the extent and variety of the world that was rapidly being opened to full view. 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 latter years of the fifteenth and in the first half of the sixteenth century Portugal expanded into Europe as well as into Africa and Asia.