In this Book

summary
This book represents the work of expert scholars, it is also accessible to non-specialists with an interest in travel writing and China, and care has been taken to explain the critical terms and ideas deployed in the essays from recent scholarship of the travel genre.

Table of Contents

restricted access Download Full Book
  1. Cover
  2. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Frontmatter
  2. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Contents
  2. pp. i-ii
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Illustrations
  2. p. vii
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. ix
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Notes on Contributors
  2. pp. xi-xiii
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-12
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 1 - Sketching China and the Self-Portrait of a Post-Romantic Traveler: John Francis Davis’s Rewriting of China in the 1840s
  2. pp. 13-26
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 2 - Converting Chinese Eyes: Rev. W. H. Medhurst, “Passing,” and the Victorian Vision of China
  2. pp. 27-38
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 3 - Traveling Imperialism: Lord Elgin’s Missions to China and the Limits of Victorian Liberalism
  2. pp. 39-52
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 4 - Mirror Images: John Thomson’s Photographs of East Asia
  2. pp. 53-62
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 5 - Eating out East: Representing Chinese Food in Victorian Travel Literature and Journalism
  2. pp. 63-74
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 6 - Encounters with Otherness: Female Travelers in China, 1880–1920
  2. pp. 75-90
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 7 - Travel Writing and the Humanitarian Impulse: Alicia Little in China
  2. pp. 91-104
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 8 - The “Sphere of Interest”: Framing Late Nineteenth-Century China in Words and Pictures with Isabella Bird
  2. pp. 105-118
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 9 - China Upriver: Three Colonial Journeys between Hong Kong and Canton, 1905–11
  2. pp. 119-132
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 10 - With Harry Franck in China
  2. pp. 133-146
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 11 - Journeys to War: W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and William Empson in China
  2. pp. 147-162
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. 12 - Agnes Smedley: The Fellow-Traveler’s Tales
  2. pp. 163-176
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Notes
  2. pp. 177-208
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 209-226
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Index
  2. pp. 227-232
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Color Plates
  2. pp. 233-240
  3. restricted access
    • Download PDF Download
Back To Top

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless.