A century of travels in China / edited by Douglas Kerr and Julia Kuehn.

Other author Kerr, Douglas.
Other author Kuehn, Julia.
Format Book
Publication InfoHong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2007.
Descriptionxiii, 232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Sketching China and the self-portrait of a post-Romantic traveler : John Francis Davis's rewriting of China in the 1840s / Tamara S. Wagner -- Converting Chinese eyes : Rev. W. H. Medhurst, "Passing," and the Victorian vision of China / Elizabeth H. Chang -- Traveling Imperialism : Lord Elgin's missions to China and the limits of Victorian liberalism / Q. S. Tong -- Mirror images : John Thomson's photographs of East Asia / Thomas Prasch -- Eating out East : representing Chinese food in Victorian travel literature and journalism / Ross G. Forman -- Encounters with otherness : female travelers in China, 1880-1920 / Julia Kuehn -- Travel writing and the humanitarian impulse : Alicia Little in China / Susan Schoenbauer Thurin -- The "sphere of interest" ; framing late nineteenth-century China in words and pictures with Isabella Bird / Susan Morgan -- China upriver : three colonial journeys between Hong Kong and Canton, 1905-11 / Elaine Yee Lin Ho -- With Harry Franck in China / Nicholas Clifford -- Journeys to war : W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and William Empson in China / Hugh Haughton -- Agnes Smedley : the fellow-traveler's tales / Douglas Kerr.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9789622098459 (hbk.)
ISBN9622098452 (hbk.)
ISBN9622098460 (pbk.)
ISBN9789622098466 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks DS709 .C46 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold