A Century of Travels in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Century of Travels in China write by Douglas Kerr. This book was released on 2007-05-01. A Century of Travels in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. The Victorian public admired and imitated Chinese fashions, in furniture and design, gardens and clothing, while maintaining a generally negative idea of the Chinese empire as pagan, backward and cruel. In the first half of the twentieth century, the fascination continued. Most foreigners were aware that revolutionary changes were taking place in Chinese politics and society, yet most still knew very little about the country. But what about those few people from the English-speaking world who had first-hand experience of the place? What did they have to say about the "real" China? To answer this question, we have to turn to the travel accounts and memoirs of people who went to see for themselves, during China's most traumatic century. While this book represents the work of expert scholars, it is also accessible to non-specialists with an interest in travel writing and China, and care has been taken to explain the critical terms and ideas deployed in the essays from recent scholarship of the travel genre.
China Abroad
China Abroad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China Abroad write by Elaine Yee Lin Ho. This book was released on 2009-01-01. China Abroad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book seeks to address how movements across cultures shape the different ways in which China and Chineseness have been imagined and represented since the beginning of the last century. In so doing, it aims to offer an overview of the debate about Chineseness as it has emerged in different global locations.
Asian Crossings
Asian Crossings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asian Crossings write by Steve Clark. This book was released on 2008-07-01. Asian Crossings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 find it an interesting and accessible addition to their collections.
The Emperor Far Away
The Emperor Far Away - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Emperor Far Away write by David Eimer. This book was released on 2014-01-01. The Emperor Far Away available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shanghai, China's borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage 'the mountains are high and the Emperor far away', meaning Beijing's grip on power is tenuous and its influence unwelcome, continues to resonate. Travelling through China's most distant and unknown reaches, David Eimer explores the increasingly tense relationship between the Han Chinese and the ethnic minorities. Deconstructing the myths represented by Beijing, Eimer reveals a shocking and fascinating picture of a China that is more of an empire than a country.
Travels in China
Travels in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Travels in China write by John Barrow. This book was released on 1804. Travels in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
