TY - BOOK AU - Ellis,Robert Richmond TI - They Need Nothing: Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the colonial Period SN - 9781442645110 AV - PQ6066 .E45 2012eb U1 - 860.9/352995 23 PY - 2012///] CY - Toronto : PB - University of Toronto Press, KW - Asians in literature KW - Ethnicity in literature KW - Spanish literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Classical period, 1500-1700 KW - DISCOUNT-B KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval KW - bisacsh N1 - restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442662933 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442662933/original ER -