Description
Book SynopsisProvides a historical look through the eyes of outsiders as they survey and scrutinize the politics, science, technology, religion, family practices, and gender roles of civilizations not their own. This book emphasizes the broader figurative meaning of looking west in the scope of history.
Trade Review"For a novice reader undertaking a journey of discovery, a researcher looking for take-off points into the issue of comparative consciousness, or an educator designing a course on non-western views of the west, this book provides both source material and inspiration." * The Journal for the History of Discoveries *
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Comparative Consciousness Maps PART ONE. MIDDLE EASTERN TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS 1. The Rus - Ahmad Ibn Fadlan 2. From The Crusades through Arab Eyes - Amin Maalouf 3. From Napoleon in Egypt - Abd Al-Rahman Al-Jabarti 4. An Imam in Paris - Rifa?ah Al-Tahtawi 5. On the Music of the Maltese and of Others - Ahmed Faris Al-Shidyaq 6. From A Turkish Woman's Impressions - Zeyneb Hanoum 7. From Orientalism - Edward Said 8. The President of Iran's Letter to the President of the United States - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 9. Democracy Cartoons - Khalil Bendib 10. Empire as Everyday Life, Everyday Life as Imperialism - Mayssoun Sukarieh PART TWO. CHINESE TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS 11. From Buddhist Records of the Western World - Xuanzang (Hiuen Tsiang) 12. Two Poems - Huang Zunxian 13. The Power and Threat of America - Liang Qichao 14. American Democracy in Crisis and The Collapse of American Capitalism - No-Yong Park 15. The Shallowness of Cultural Tradition - Fei Xiaotong 16. From Americans and Chinese - Francis L. K. Hsu 17. Some Thoughts on Certain Aspects of Modern Western Culture - Zhao Fusan 18. Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money - Interview of Gao Xiqing by James Fallows 19. Full Text of Human Rights Record of United States in 2008 - Xinhuanet PART THREE. INDIAN TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS 20. From Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan - Mirza Abu Taleb Khan 21. Remarks on Settlement in India by Europeans - Raja Rammohun Roy 22. My Impressions of England - Keshub Chunder Sen 23. From Poverty and Un-British Rule in India - Dadabhai Naoroji 24. The Condition of England and Civilization -- Mohandas K. Gandhi 25. Passage to and from India - Nirad C. Chaudhuri 26. Indian Economic Policy - Birendra Narayan Chakravarty 27. The Eurocentric History of Science and Multicultural Histories of Science - Arun Bala 28. From The Thistle and the Drone - Akbar Ahmed PART FOUR. JAPANESE TRAVELERS AND THEIR OBSERVATIONS 29. From The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law - Ennin 30. From A Secret Plan of Government and Tales of the West - Honda Toshiaki 31. From As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States - Masao Miyoshi 32. From The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa - Fukuzawa Yukichi 33. Why Security Treaty? - Yuzuru Katagiri 34. Japan and the United States: Partners or Master and Servant? - Shintaro Ishihara For Further Reading Index
