Robinson Crusoe in Asia

Introduction.- Defoe and the Problem of the East India Company.- Between Castaways and Traders: Cannibal-cum-Crusoe in Sumatra and Andaman Islands.- Robinson Crusoe in the Context of Travel Narrative of Early Modern England on Asia.- Robinson Crusoe, Improvement and Intellectual Piracy in the Early Enlightenment.- Religious Conversion and the Far East in the Crusoe Trilogy.- ’Le coeur fou Robinsonne a travers les romans’: Crusoe’s Farther Adventures in the French Robinsonade.- Krusoe Robinson’s Adventure: Technology of the Self and Double Consciousness in Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson der Jungere.- Kicking Away the Gold Coins: Ōtsuka Hisao’s Reading of Robinson Crusoe and the “Human Archetype” of Post-War Japan.- Transforming and Translating the Novel Form: The Examples of Daniel Defoe and Lin Shu.- The Boy and the Sea: Translating Robinson Crusoe in Early Twentieth-Century Korea.- “I must endure courageously and manfully”— Robinson Crusoe Translated by Minami Yōichirō and its Influence on Later Translations in Post-War Japan.- Robinsonades in Japan: Colonial Fantasy, Survivalist Narrative, and Homo Economicus.- Crusoe Comes to Caramoan: The Survival of American Cultural Imperialism in the Philippines.