Latin American Sinographies : travel writings of a journey to China (1843-1966) / Ana María Ramírez Gómez

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramírez Gómez, Ana María, author.

Series:

Latin American literatures in the world ; 25.

Latin American literatures in the world ; volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--In literature.

China.

Travelers' writings, Spanish American--19th century--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, Spanish American.

Travelers' writings, Spanish American--20th century--History and criticism.

Travel in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2025]

Summary:

"Within the world mappings of cultural representation, the transatlantic is the route that has monopolized our imaginaries about the self and the other. This book studies an alternative trajectory: the Latin American travel writing of the journey to China from the 19th century to the dawn of the Cultural Revolution (1843-1966). Through a wide constellation of texts, it offers an in-depth comparative analysis of how travelers from Colombia, Peru and Chile imagined, interpreted, and represented the different Chinas they witnessed. Intercepted mainly by literary criticism, the text is prioritized as the main point of departure to contextualize and identify the political as well as the poetical effects that this off-the-beaten-path encounter represented. Close attention is also paid to the transformation of the conditions that surrounded the Latin American production of meanings of China, as well as the change that "China" had as an idea throughout these decades. Through these pages, it is argued that from the voyage of the lettered Creole to the Qing empire, to the trip of the red tourist to Communist China, this encounter, and the writing of it became a space to reimagine and redraw Latin Americanness from other world coordinates"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Introduction : Latin American Sinographies

On the politics of travel, travel writing and the traveling text

Creole travel memories from nineteenth-century China (1843-1899)

The modern compass points east (1900-1949)

Following the red star (1950-1966)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed July 9, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Ramírez Gómez, Ana María Latin American Sinographies

ISBN:

9783111622675

3111622673

9783111623009

3111623009

OCLC:

1535645231

Publisher Number:

CIPO000245833

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license