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A century of travels in China : critical essays on travel writing from the 1840s to the 1940s /
Writings of travelers have shaped ideas about an evolving China, while preconceived ideas about China also shaped the way they saw the country. A Century of Travels in China explores the impressions of these writers on various themes, from Chinese cities and landscapes to the work of Europeans abroa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Sketching China and the self-portrait of a post-Romantic traveler : John Francis Davis's rewriting of China in the 1840s / Tamara S. Wagner
- Converting Chinese eyes : Rev. W.H. Medhurst, "Passing," and the Victorian vision of China / Elizabeth H. Chang
- Traveling Imperialism : Lord Elgin's missions to China and the limits of Victorian liberalism / Q.S. Tong
- Mirror images : John Thomson's photographs of East Asia / Thomas Prasch
- Eating out East : representing Chinese food in Victorian travel literature and journalism / Ross G. Forman
- Encounters with otherness : female travelers in China, 1880-1920 / Julia Kuehn
- Travel writing and the humanitarian impulse : Alicia Little in China / Susan Schoenbauer Thurin
- The "sphere of interest" ; framing late nineteenth-century China in words and pictures with Isabella Bird / Susan Morgan
- China upriver : three colonial journeys between Hong Kong and Canton, 1905-11 / Elaine Yee Lin Ho
- With Harry Franck in China / Nicholas Clifford
- Journeys to war : W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and William Empson in China / Hugh Haughton
- Agnes Smedley : the fellow-traveler's tales / Douglas Kerr.