Asian crossings : travel writing on China, Japan and Southeast Asia / edited by Steve Clark and Paul Smethurst.
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| Language: | English |
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Hong Kong : London :
Hong Kong University Press ; Eurospan [distributor],
2008.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 276 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Between topos and topography : Japanese early modern travel literature / Robert F. Wittkamp
- 'First appearance of this celebrated capital' ; or, what Mr. Barrow saw in the land of the Chinaman / Joe Sample
- Reading of readings : English travel books, audiences, and modern Chinese history, c. 1832 to present / Ting Man Tsao
- Travel and business : the first Colombian in China / Jacinto Fombona
- Erasing footsteps : on some differences between the first and popular editions of Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan / Shizen Ozawa
- Discourses of difference : the Malaya of Isabella Bird, Emily Innes and Florence Caddy / Eddie Tay
- China of the tourists : women and the Grand Tour of the Middle Kingdom, 1878-1923 / Julia Kuehn
- Ruins in the jungle : nature and narrative / Douglas Kerr
- Forbidden journeys to China and beyond with the odd couple : Ella Maillart and Peter Fleming / Maureen Mulligan
- Kawakami Otojiro's trip to the West and Taiwan at the turn of the twentieth century / Yukari Yoshihara
- Shaking the Buddhas : Lafcadio Hearn in Japan, 1890-1904 / David Taylor
- 'Chambres d'Asie, chambres d'ailleurs' : Nicole-Lise Bernheim's 'vertical travels' in Asia / Katy Hindson
- World Journey of My Heart and Homestay in the World : travel programming and contemporary Japanese culture / Mark Meli
- After the Bubble : post-Imperial Tokyo / Steve Clark.