A Century of Travels in China: Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s

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Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements ix Notes on Contributors xi Introduction 1 Douglas Kerr and Julia Kuehn 1. Sketching China and the Self-Portrait of a Post-Romantic Traveler: 13 John Francis Davis’s Rewriting of China in the 1840s Tamara S. Wagner 2. Converting Chinese Eyes: Rev. W. H. Medhurst, “Passing,” 27 and the Victorian Vision of China Elizabeth H. Chang 3. Traveling Imperialism: Lord Elgin’s Missions to China and the 39 Limits of Victorian Liberalism Q. S. Tong 4. Mirror Images: John Thomson’s Photographs of East Asia 53 Thomas Prasch 5. Eating out East: Representing Chinese Food in Victorian Travel 63 Literature and Journalism Ross G. Forman vi Contents 6. Encounters with Otherness: Female Travelers in China, 1880–1920 75 Julia Kuehn 7. Travel Writing and the Humanitarian Impulse: Alicia Little in China 91 Susan Schoenbauer Thurin 8. The “Sphere of Interest”: Framing Late Nineteenth-Century China in 105 Words and Pictures with Isabella Bird Susan Morgan 9. China Upriver: Three Colonial Journeys between Hong Kong and Canton, 119 1905–11 Elaine Yee Lin Ho 10. With Harry Franck in China 133 Nicholas Clifford 11. Journeys to War: W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and William 147 Empson in China Hugh Haughton 12. Agnes Smedley: The Fellow-Traveler’s Tales 163 Douglas Kerr Notes 177 Bibliography 209 Index 227 ...