| Description |
1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 abroad. From the time of the first Opium War to the declaration of the People's Republic, China's history has been one of extraordinary change and stubborn continuities. At the same time, the country has beguiled, scared, and puzzled people in the West |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
HKU Press digital editions |
| Subject |
HISTORY.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy.
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Travel
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024006
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| Subject |
China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kerr, Douglas.
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Kuehn, Julia.
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| LC no. |
2008438054 |
| ISBN |
9789888052011 |
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9888052012 |
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9622098452 |
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9789622098459 |
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9622098460 |
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9789622098466 |
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1282708635 |
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9781282708631 |
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9786612708633 |
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6612708638 |
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