... selected aspects of the cross-cultural encounter and draw reasonable conclusions about the impact many of these narratives would have had in a range of contexts. Where does national identity fit in these types of divisions and classifications? How do those who have been born and raised in Hong Kong but who...

...Figure 4.1 Betty Wei candidly discussed various aspects of the cross-cultural encounter in her South China Morning Post and Eastern Express columns during the 1980s and 1990s. (Credit: Betty Wei) Figure 4.2 In the years before 1997, Teresa Norton's...

..., it emphasizes how the Essais are preoccupied with the reimagining of the world in the wake of cross-cultural encounters. Montaigne interrogates all systems of world-order, exposing them as contingent human artifacts. Skepticism thus opens the way to intellectual renewal and demands a new...

..., Dragomoshchenko’s correspondences resist the binaries that have constrained readings of his work and suggest the importance of interpersonal cross-cultural encounters to understanding a moment of world-historic change. – works “L̓albatros ” Club 81 Cold War and post–Cold War Bernstein's use of correspondence...

... scholars and the public will continue to erroneously universalize locally-rooted processes, such as the creation of the Westphalian state system, as an inherently human characteristic. This essay turns the methodology of cross-cultural encounter pioneered by Jerry Bentley on scholarly practice, examining...

...” embedded in the encounter of late imperial China and the modern West. The contributors to this book take a multidisciplinary approach to this significant cross-cultural encounter, featured by three major Christian denominations—Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism. They use abundant existing and newly...

... everyday estrangement, Bei Dao’s allegory and echo, Dmitri Prigov’s intersecting iterations, and Charles Bernstein’s affective immediacy and distancing artifice. When seen through the cross-cultural encounters and poetries wrought by the passage from the Cold War world to our current era of globalization...

...-century insistence on music's moral, social, and political utility. It argues that the foregrounding of alterity, like the new historicization of music, arose within the context of the late 18th century's increased mobility and its burgeoning cross-cultural encounters. The traveler's exposure to new...

... EIC Shelley Percy Bysshe Wollstonecraft Mary Hamilton George Mitford Mary Russell Southey Robert Hazlitt William Northwest Passage Shelley Mary travel writing the Pacific editorship and ownership cross-cultural encounter John Hawkesworth James Cook George Keate John Martin William...

... in this study prove that there is no such thing as a “typical American woman.” Yet there are threads of connection. All of the texts enrich our understanding of the ways in which notions of gender and national identity are shaped, in part, by the cross-cultural encounter, albeit in highly individual ways...

...In examining the status of music in the cross-cultural encounter, this chapter focuses on Captain Cook's second voyage (1772-5) and the role played by Burney's son James and the German naturalist Georg Forster in transcribing and commenting on Polynesian music. It shows that the discovery of part...

...Although cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth-century America. Part of a new wave of scholarship in early American studies that contextualizes...

...This book brings together medieval Iberia, colonial Mexico, and colonial New Mexico through the largely unexplored history of the Virgin Mary as a figure of warfare and cross-cultural encounter. Beginning around 1000, Mary was drawn into warfare between Muslims and Christians in Iberia, emerging...