LEADER 03363nam 22005774a 450 001 9910456560003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-70863-5 010 $a9786612708633 010 $a988-8052-01-2 035 $a(CKB)2520000000009818 035 $a(EBL)677293 035 $a(OCoLC)646069099 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413724 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11319714 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413724 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10399427 035 $a(PQKB)11128403 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC677293 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse7066 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL677293 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10362221 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL270863 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000009818 100 $a20080904d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA century of travels in China$b[electronic resource] $ecritical essays on travel writing from the 1840s to the 1940s /$fedited by Douglas Kerr and Julia Kuehn 210 $aHong Kong $cHong Kong University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a962-209-845-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [209]-225 and index). 327 $aContents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 - Sketching China and the Self-Portrait of a Post-Romantic Traveler: John Francis Davis's Rewriting of China in the 1840s; 2 - Converting Chinese Eyes: Rev. W. H. Medhurst, "Passing," and the Victorian Vision of China; 3 - Traveling Imperialism: Lord Elgin's Missions to China and the Limits of Victorian Liberalism; 4 - Mirror Images: John Thomson's Photographs of East Asia; 5 - Eating out East: Representing Chinese Food in Victorian Travel Literature and Journalism 327 $a6 - Encounters with Otherness: Female Travelers in China, 1880-19207 - Travel Writing and the Humanitarian Impulse: Alicia Little in China; 8 - The "Sphere of Interest": Framing Late Nineteenth-Century China in Words and Pictures with Isabella Bird; 9 - China Upriver: Three Colonial Journeys between Hong Kong and Canton, 1905-11; 10 - With Harry Franck in China; 11 - Journeys to War: W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and William Empson in China; 12 - Agnes Smedley: The Fellow-Traveler's Tales; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Color Plates 330 $aWritings 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. 607 $aChina$xDescription and travel 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a951 701 $aKerr$b Douglas$0993600 701 $aKuehn$b Julia$0901605 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456560003321 996 $aA century of travels in China$92457051 997 $aUNINA