Asian crossings : travel writing on China, Japan and Southeast Asia /
Asian crossings : travel writing on China, Japan and Southeast Asia /
edited by Steve Clark and Paul Smethurst.
- xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Between topos and topography : Japanese early modern travel literature / 'First appearance of this celebrated capital' ; or, what Mr. Barrow saw in the land of the Chinaman / Reading of readings : English travel books, audiences, and modern Chinese history, c. 1832 to present / Travel and business : the first Colombian in China / Erasing footsteps : on some differences between the first and popular editions of Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan / Discourses of difference : the Malaya of Isabella Bird, Emily Innes and Florence Caddy / China of the tourists : women and the Grand Tour of the Middle Kingdom, 1878-1923 / Ruins in the jungle : nature and narrative / Forbidden journeys to China and beyond with the odd couple : Ella Maillart and Peter Fleming / Kawakami Otojiro's trip to the West and Taiwan at the turn of the twentieth century / Shaking the Buddhas : Lafcadio Hearn in Japan, 1890-1904 / 'Chambres d'Asie, chambres d'ailleurs' : Nicole-Lise Bernheim's 'vertical travels' in Asia / World Journey of My Heart and Homestay in the World : travel programming and contemporary Japanese culture / After the Bubble : post-Imperial Tokyo / Robert F. Wittkamp -- Joe Sample -- Ting Man Tsao -- Jacinto Fombona -- Shizen Ozawa -- Eddie Tay -- Julia Kuehn -- Douglas Kerr -- Maureen Mulligan -- Yukari Yoshihara -- David Taylor -- Katy Hindson -- Mark Meli -- Steve Clark.
"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 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. While this book will appeal to expert scholars and students of travel literature and Asian studies, as well as those working on cultural studies, general readers will also fmd it an interesting and accessible addition to their collections."--BOOK JACKET.
9622099149 9789622099142 9622099157 9789622099159
2009502344
Travelers' writings--History and criticism
China--Description and travel.
Japan--Description and travel
Southeast Asia--Description and travel
PN56.T7 / A85 2008
915
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Between topos and topography : Japanese early modern travel literature / 'First appearance of this celebrated capital' ; or, what Mr. Barrow saw in the land of the Chinaman / Reading of readings : English travel books, audiences, and modern Chinese history, c. 1832 to present / Travel and business : the first Colombian in China / Erasing footsteps : on some differences between the first and popular editions of Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan / Discourses of difference : the Malaya of Isabella Bird, Emily Innes and Florence Caddy / China of the tourists : women and the Grand Tour of the Middle Kingdom, 1878-1923 / Ruins in the jungle : nature and narrative / Forbidden journeys to China and beyond with the odd couple : Ella Maillart and Peter Fleming / Kawakami Otojiro's trip to the West and Taiwan at the turn of the twentieth century / Shaking the Buddhas : Lafcadio Hearn in Japan, 1890-1904 / 'Chambres d'Asie, chambres d'ailleurs' : Nicole-Lise Bernheim's 'vertical travels' in Asia / World Journey of My Heart and Homestay in the World : travel programming and contemporary Japanese culture / After the Bubble : post-Imperial Tokyo / Robert F. Wittkamp -- Joe Sample -- Ting Man Tsao -- Jacinto Fombona -- Shizen Ozawa -- Eddie Tay -- Julia Kuehn -- Douglas Kerr -- Maureen Mulligan -- Yukari Yoshihara -- David Taylor -- Katy Hindson -- Mark Meli -- Steve Clark.
"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 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. While this book will appeal to expert scholars and students of travel literature and Asian studies, as well as those working on cultural studies, general readers will also fmd it an interesting and accessible addition to their collections."--BOOK JACKET.
9622099149 9789622099142 9622099157 9789622099159
2009502344
Travelers' writings--History and criticism
China--Description and travel.
Japan--Description and travel
Southeast Asia--Description and travel
PN56.T7 / A85 2008
915