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Asian crossings : travel writing on China, Japan and Southeast Asia / edited by Steve Clark and Paul Smethurst.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers' writings--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings.
- China--Description and travel.
- China.
- Japan--Description and travel.
- Japan.
- Southeast Asia--Description and travel.
- Southeast Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 nineteenth century, this book offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse of the various cultures in the eyes of their beholders coupled with insightful understanding of the various politics and relationships that are involved.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 988-220-663-8
- 1-282-70866-X
- 9786612708664
- 988-8052-04-7
- OCLC:
- 650784908
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