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Susan Schoenbauer Thurin - Victorian Travelers and the Opening of China, 1842-1907 - 9780821412688 - V9780821412688
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Victorian Travelers and the Opening of China, 1842-1907

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Description for Victorian Travelers and the Opening of China, 1842-1907 Hardcover. Num Pages: 271 pages, illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; DN; DSB; HBG; HBJF; HBLL; JPQB; JPS; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 159 x 585. Weight in Grams: 612.

Three men and three women: a plant collector, a merchant and his novelist wife, a military officer, and two famous women travelers went to China between the Opium War and the formal end of the opium trade, 1842–1907. Their range of perspectives, their acquaintance with one another and their similar scope of travel to Hong Kong, the treaty ports, and Sichuan lend intensity to their picture of China and the Western presence there.
What the travelers record reveals is a continuity in the response of the West and China to each other. Susan Schoenbauer Thurin’s study of these writings ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821412688
SKU
V9780821412688
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-1

About Susan Schoenbauer Thurin
Susan Schoenbauer Thurin, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, is the author of many articles on Victorian literature. She has also taught in Liberia, England, Sweden, and China.

Reviews for Victorian Travelers and the Opening of China, 1842-1907
“The study makes a significant contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the practice and variety of the multi-faceted genre of travel writing.”

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