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Description for Asian Crossings
Paperback. Examines various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, Japan and South East Asia. This book offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse of the various cultures in the eyes of their beholders coupled with understanding of the various politics and relationships that are involved. It is useful to scholars and students of Asian studies. Editor(s): Clark, Steve; Smethurst, Paul. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press Hong Kong
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN
9789622099159
SKU
V9789622099159
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99-15
About Steve Clark
Paul Smethurst is an associate professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. His publications include The Postmodern Chronotope: Reading Space and Time in Contemporary Fiction (2000), Travel Writing, Form and Empire: The Poetics and Politics of Mobility (2008) and The Reinvention of Nature: Scientific, Picturesque and Romantic Travel Writing.
Reviews for Asian Crossings
This timely and clearly focused collection of essays offers an illuminating introduction to accounts of travel to and from China, Japan and Southeast Asia. The travelogues challenge the reader to question many of the assumptions that characterise current studies in travel writing, revealing the richness of context-specific approaches that draw on a variety of journey accounts concerning common geographical zones. Highlighting issues of gender and ethnicity, of genre and history, Asian Crossings is essential reading for all serious scholars of travel literature.
Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Chair of French, University of Liverpool
Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Chair of French, University of Liverpool