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They Need Nothing
Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period
Robert Richmond Ellis (Author)
9781487548964
Paperback / softback, published 24 June 2022
240 pages, 7 B&W illustrations
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.35 kg
‘Robert R. Ellis has produced a valuable monograph about Hispanic-Asian cultural encounters during Spanish colonial period…The entirety of Ellis’ book is illuminating in its approach and content.’ ‘Ellis’s book is a welcome addition to the burgeoning field of early modern Hispano-Asiatic studies… This book constitutes an invaluable research tool for scholars in Hispano-Asiatic studies and to specialists in colonial studies more generally.’
The first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, They Need Nothing draws attention to many essential but understudied Spanish-language texts from this era. Robert Richmond Ellis provides an engaging, interdisciplinary examination of how these writings depict Asia and Asians as both similar to and different from Europe and Europeans, and details how East and Southeast Asians reacted to the Spanish presence in Asia. They Need Nothing highlights texts related to Japan, China, Cambodia, and the Philippines, beginning with Francis Xavier’s observations of Japan in the mid-sixteenth century and ending with JosÉ Rizal’s responses to the legacy of Spanish colonialism in the late nineteenth century. Ellis provides a groundbreaking expansion of the geographical and cultural contours of Hispanism that bridges the fields of European, Latin American, and Asian Studies.