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British Travel Writers in China - Writing Home to a British Public, 1890-1914 : Writing Home to a British Public,1890-1914.
This study is principally about travel and the travel experience, engaged those themes within the context of existing post-colonial and post-modern debates that critique the writings of Western travelers who journeyed in non-Western locales. The travel writers, or travel savants, as they are charact...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewiston :
Edwin Mellen Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Map of China and Japan; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Theoretical Reflections; Chapter 1- Envisioned Companions: Writing to an imaginary British Readership; The Traveler as Solitary Figure, Communal Guide; The Traveler's Profile: Class, Gender and Function; The Traveler's Identity: Transistional Images of Exploere, Traveler and Tourist; The Traveler's Britain: Imperial Glories, Provincial Nostalgia; The Traveler's China: Fabled Past, Decayed Present.
- Chapter 2-European Settlements in China: Seeking and Evading Expatriate CocoonsThe Allure of Little Englands, Little Londons; Far from the Madding Crowd: Avoiding British Compounds; Shanghai and Peking: Home and Away in China; Up the Mighty Yangtze: Journeying Away from Anglo-China; Chapter 3-Representing Difference: The Chinese Through British Travelers' Eyes; Imperial Baggage: Seeing the Chinese Through the Colonial Lens; Representational Cliches: Prevailing Images of the Chinese; Discursive Variations: Striving for Representational Equilibrium.
- Representational Projections: Seeing the British Through Imagined Chinese EyesChapter 4-Chinese Encounters: Negotiating Difference on the Road Through China; Chinese Crowds: For Their Eyes Always; Chinese Servants: Upstairs, Downstairs in China; Chinese Officialdom: Problematic Guardians Along Upredictable Routes; Chinese Justice: Peering Through the Looking Glass of Horror; The Chinese Vice: Observing Opium from Near and Far; Chapter 5- Creature Comforts: Grumbling About Travel Accommodations; Transportation Woes: Carts, Litters, Boats, and Trains; Inns: Looking for a Decent Place to Stay.
- Hygienic Horros: Flith, Stench, and Sanitation on the RoadCulinary Curiosities: From Haute Cuisine toMystery Meals; Chapter 6: Travel Misfortunes: Narratives of Danger, Mishap and Frustration; Shadowed by Fear: Boxer Dread and Other Apprehensions; Anywhere by Here: Trials, Misadventures and Petite Heroics; War Zones: On the Road Amidst Chinese Conflicts; Missionary Tales: Traveland Flight for Christ; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.