{"product_id":"they-need-nothing-hispanic-asian-encounters-of-the-colonial-period-paperback-softback-9781487548964","title":"They Need Nothing; Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487548964","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThey Need Nothing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert Richmond Ellis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487548964\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 June 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 7 B\u0026amp;W illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.35 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Christina H. Lee (Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol 92:02:2015) \u003cp\u003e‘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.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Raul Marrero-Fente (Journal of Historical Geography September 2014)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, \u003cem\u003eThey Need Nothing \u003c\/em\u003edraws 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey Need Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595899334936,"sku":"9781487548964","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/they-need-nothing-hispanic-asian-encounters-of-the-colonial-period-paperback-softback-9781487548964","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}