Asian Crossings – Travel Writing on China, Japan, and Southeast Asia

Steve Clark, Paul Smethurst (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2008
Hong Kong University Press (Verlag)
978-962-209-914-2 (ISBN)

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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 also useful to scholars and students of Asian studies.

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.

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.

Verlagsort	Hong Kong
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	534 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Naher Osten
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	962-209-914-9 / 9622099149
ISBN-13	978-962-209-914-2 / 9789622099142
Zustand	Neuware