Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations : Texts and Histories.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Works Cited -- Chapter 1 "A Being … from a Different World": Yung Wing and the Making of a Global Subjectivity -- Introduction, Synopsis, and Reception History -- Narratives of Return, Racial Melancholia, Global Subjectivity, and the Melancholic Slave Narrative -- My Life as Autobiography: Aims and Contradictions -- Writing as a Global Citizen: Gützlaff's Journal -- Writing as a Global Citizen: My Life in China and America -- The Trouble with Missionaries -- Reading My Life through Slave Narratives -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 Maritime Links, Imperialism, and Diaspora in the Ibis Trilogy -- Archived History and the Ibis Trilogy3 -- Migration and Colonialism -- Thematic Preoccupations of Ghosh -- Indentured Labour in the Nineteenth Century -- Cultural Context in the Ibis -- Maritime Trade between India and China -- Sino-Indian Relations and the Colonial Period -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Utopia and History: Os Lusíadas (Camões) and Uma viagem à Índia (G. M. Tavares) -- Utopia as a Problem in Camões and Gonçalo M. Tavares -- The Island of Love in Os Lusíadas as a Near-Utopia -- A Voyage to India: Rewriting Os Lusíadas through Tradition -- Utopia and Its Discontents: Counter-Utopia in Tavares's Uma Viagem à Índia -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 "Orientalism from Within" in Goa: Local Textual Production in Light of the Legal and Administrative Framework of the Overseas Populations -- Religious but Not Quite -- Compromise, Pragmatism, and Provisional Tolerance -- Orientalizing the Same -- National Indians but Not Quite -- Concluding Remarks -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 Present Absences: the East in the Story of a Port Town on the Western Coast of the Black Sea -- The Cultural Memory of Sulina.

Sulina: Imaginings of the West versus Actual Intervention in the East -- The Gap between Bart and Thorpe -- Bridging the Gap: Sulina after Jean Bart -- Beyond the East-West Divide (and Back) -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 Pragmatism and Politics Intertwined: the West, the East, the Suez Crisis, and Inter/national Hegemony in James Graham's Eden's Empire -- Introduction -- Realpolitik, the Suez Crisis, and Drama -- Graham's Eden's Empire and the Death of Realpolitik -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 A Dog of Flanders: Of Triumphant Heroes and Heroic Losers -- Introduction -- The West The Author: Ouida -- Different Readings -- Adaptations -- The East -- Anime and Adaptation -- East Meets West -- Epilogue -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8 Yeats, Noh Theatre, and the Traditions of Asia -- Context -- Yeats and Noh: First Adaptations -- Yeats and Buddhism -- Yeats's Drama and Buddhism -- Yeats and China -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9 David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face in Postracial Times -- Hwang's Developmental History -- Events Leading to Face Value -- Yellow Face and Messing with the Terms of Asian American Identity -- Challenges to Ethnic Identity -- The Panethnic Entrepreneur Plays the Game -- Racist Things Still Happen -- Minstrelsy and Racist Love -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10 Imagining Robert Wilson's The Three Ladies of London in Macao -- Background to the Creation of 3LM -- An Annotative Synopsis of 3LL -- From 3LL to 3LM -- Characters in 3LM -- Plot and Sound of 3LM -- Spectacle in 3LM -- Language of 3LM -- Pedagogical Reflection on the Creation of 3LM -- Works Cited -- Appendix: The Three Ladies of Macao (2016) -- Index.

Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations traces and investigates multi-cultural interpretations of fictional and non-fictional narratives that feature people and events in East-West hubs. The Three Ladies of Macao, premièred in December 2016, is now published as appendix in this volume.

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