Contributor
Nader, Laura, editor.
ImprintOakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Imprint2015
Descriptionxxiv, 444 pages : maps, illustrations ; 23 cm
Note:Includes some primary source material.
Note:PART ONE. MIDDLE EASTERN TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS -- The Rus: Ahmad Ibn Fadlan -- From The Crusades through Arab Eyes: Amin Maalouf -- From Napoleon in Egypt: Abd Al-Rahman Al-Jabarti -- An Imam in Paris: Rifa'ah Al-Tahtawi -- On the Music of the Maltese and of Others: Ahmed Faris Al-Shidyaq -- From A Turkish Woman's Impressions: Zeyneb Hanoum -- From Orientalism: Edward Said -- The President of Iran's Letter to the President of the United States: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- Democracy Cartoons: Khalil Bendib -- Empire as Everyday Life, Everyday Life as Imperialism: Mayssoun Sukarieh -- PART TWO. CHINESE TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS -- From Buddhist Records of the Western World: Xuanzang (Hiuen Tsiang) -- Two Poems: Huang Zunxian -- The Power and Threat of America: Liang Qichao -- American Democracy in Crisis and The Collapse of American Capitalism: No-Yong Park -- The Shallowness of Cultural Tradition: Fei Xiaotong -- From Americans and Chinese: Francis L. K. Hsu -- Some Thoughts on Certain Aspects of Modern Western Culture: Zhao Fusan -- Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money: Interview of Gao Xiqing by James Fallows -- Full Text of Human Rights Record of United States in 2008: Xinhuanet -- PART THREE. INDIAN TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS -- From Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan: Mirza Abu Taleb Khan -- Remarks on Settlement in India by Europeans: Raja Rammohun Roy -- My Impressions of England: Keshub Chunder Sen -- From Poverty and Un-British Rule in India: Dadabhai Naoroji -- The Condition of England and Civilization: Mohandas K. Gandhi -- Passage to and from India: Nirad C. Chaudhuri -- Indian Economic Policy: Birendra Narayan Chakravarty -- The Eurocentric History of Science and Multicultural Histories of Science: Arun Bala -- From The Thistle and the Drone: Akbar Ahmed -- PART FOUR. JAPANESE TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS -- From The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law: Ennin -- From A Secret Plan of Government and Tales of the West: Honda Toshiaki -- From As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States: Masao Miyoshi -- From The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa: Fukuzawa Yukichi -- Why Security Treaty?: Yuzuru Katagiri -- Japan and the United States: Partners or Master and Servant?: Shintaro Ishihara.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-425) and index.
