Asian crossings : travel writing on China, Japan and Southeast Asia /

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"The fourteen chapters in this book examine various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, Japan and Southeast Asia. From the first Colombian on a trade mission to China, to French women travellers in Asia, and the opening of Japan Fairs' in the US during the latter half of the n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Clark, S. H. (Steven H.), 1957-, Smethurst, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hong Kong : London : Hong Kong University Press ; Eurospan [distributor], 2008.
Temas:
Travelers' writings > History and criticism.
Écrits de voyageurs > Histoire et critique.
TRAVEL > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
Travel.
Travelers' writings.
China > Description and travel.
Japan > Description and travel.
Southeast Asia > Description and travel.
Chine > Descriptions et voyages.
Japon > Descriptions et voyages.
Asie du Sud-Est > Descriptions et voyages.
China.
Japan.
Southeast Asia.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Between topos and topography : Japanese early modern travel literature / Robert F. Wittkamp
  • 'First appearance of this celebrated capital' ; or, what Mr. Barrow saw in the land of the Chinaman / Joe Sample
  • Reading of readings : English travel books, audiences, and modern Chinese history, c. 1832 to present / Ting Man Tsao
  • Travel and business : the first Colombian in China / Jacinto Fombona
  • Erasing footsteps : on some differences between the first and popular editions of Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan / Shizen Ozawa
  • Discourses of difference : the Malaya of Isabella Bird, Emily Innes and Florence Caddy / Eddie Tay
  • China of the tourists : women and the Grand Tour of the Middle Kingdom, 1878-1923 / Julia Kuehn
  • Ruins in the jungle : nature and narrative / Douglas Kerr
  • Forbidden journeys to China and beyond with the odd couple : Ella Maillart and Peter Fleming / Maureen Mulligan
  • Kawakami Otojiro's trip to the West and Taiwan at the turn of the twentieth century / Yukari Yoshihara
  • Shaking the Buddhas : Lafcadio Hearn in Japan, 1890-1904 / David Taylor
  • 'Chambres d'Asie, chambres d'ailleurs' : Nicole-Lise Bernheim's 'vertical travels' in Asia / Katy Hindson
  • World Journey of My Heart and Homestay in the World : travel programming and contemporary Japanese culture / Mark Meli
  • After the Bubble : post-Imperial Tokyo / Steve Clark.

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