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Title Asian crossings : travel writing on China, Japan and Southeast Asia / edited by Steve Clark and Paul Smethurst.
Imprint Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2008.

Subject Travelers' writings -- History and criticism.
China -- Description and travel.
Japan -- Description and travel.
Southeast Asia -- Description and travel.
Alt Name Clark, S. H. (Steven H.), 1957- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqQthTRr9HQjY9kDYk7HC
Smethurst, Paul.
Description 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "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 ofthe 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."--Jacket.
Note Print version record.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified star
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Note digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda
ISBN 9789888052042 (electronic bk.)
9888052047 (electronic bk.)
9789882206632
9882206638
9622099149 (hbk.)
9789622099142 (hbk.)
9622099157 (pbk.)
9789622099159 (pbk.)
OCLC # 650784908
Additional Format Print version: Asian crossings. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2008 9789622099142 (DLC) 2009502344 (OCoLC)225876249



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