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Re-Orienting China: Travel Writing and Cross-Cultural Understanding
Leilei Chen
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Description for Re-Orienting China: Travel Writing and Cross-Cultural Understanding
Hardcover. In this thoughtful study, Leilei Chen embraces travel writing as a means of understanding Chinese "otherness" and discovering one's self in a globalized world. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; 3JM; DSBH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 244 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
Re-Orienting China challenges the notion of the travel writer as imperialistic, while exploring the binary opposition of self/other. Featuring analyses of rarely studied writers on post-1949 China, including Jan Wong, Jock T. Wilson, Peter Hessler, Leslie T. Chang, Hill Gates, and Yi-Fu Tuan, Re-Orienting China demonstrates the transformative power of travel, as it changes our preconceived notions of home and abroad. Drawing on her own experience as a Chinese expat living in Canada, Leilei Chen embraces the possibility of productive cross-border relationships that are critical in today's globalized world. An intriguing contribution to research. Postcolonial studies is in the ... Read more
Re-Orienting China challenges the notion of the travel writer as imperialistic, while exploring the binary opposition of self/other. Featuring analyses of rarely studied writers on post-1949 China, including Jan Wong, Jock T. Wilson, Peter Hessler, Leslie T. Chang, Hill Gates, and Yi-Fu Tuan, Re-Orienting China demonstrates the transformative power of travel, as it changes our preconceived notions of home and abroad. Drawing on her own experience as a Chinese expat living in Canada, Leilei Chen embraces the possibility of productive cross-border relationships that are critical in today's globalized world. An intriguing contribution to research. Postcolonial studies is in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
464 g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Regina, Canada
ISBN
9780889774407
SKU
V9780889774407
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About Leilei Chen
Leilei Chen is an instructor of English and Writing Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Before moving to Canada she was a professor of English at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. She has published in the areas of Victorian Studies, Asian American studies, Canadian literature, and travel writing.
Reviews for Re-Orienting China: Travel Writing and Cross-Cultural Understanding
An intriguing contribution to research. Postcolonial studies is in the process of exploring ways to get past the binary opposition of self/other, and books like Re-Orienting China are an important part of this project.
Pamela McCallum, Cultural Memories & Imagined Futures Chen brings an intimate awareness of the internal diversity within China which is too often downplayed ... Read more
Pamela McCallum, Cultural Memories & Imagined Futures Chen brings an intimate awareness of the internal diversity within China which is too often downplayed ... Read more