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

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Contents Acknowledgements vii Contributors ix Introduction 1 Steve Clark 1. Between Topos and Topography: Japanese Early Modern 15 Travel Literature Robert F. Wittkamp 2. ‘The First Appearance of This Celebrated Capital’; or, What 31 Mr. Barrow Saw in the Land of the Chinaman Joe Sample 3. A Reading of Readings: English Travel Books, Audiences, 47 and Modern Chinese History, c. 1832 to the Present Ting Man Tsao 4. Travel and Business: The First Colombian in China 71 Jacinto Fombona 5. Erasing Footsteps: On Some Differences between the First and 87 Popular Editions of Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Shizen Ozawa 6. Discourses of Difference: The Malaya of Isabella Bird, 99 Emily Innes and Florence Caddy Eddie Tay 7. China of the Tourists: Women and the Grand Tour of 113 the Middle Kingdom, 1878–1923 Julia Kuehn 8. Ruins in the Jungle: Nature and Narrative 131 Douglas Kerr 9. Forbidden Journeys to China and Beyond with the Odd Couple: 141 Ella Maillart and Peter Fleming Maureen Mulligan 10. Kawakami Otojiro’s Trip to the West and Taiwan at the Turn 149 of the Twentieth Century Yukari Yoshihara 11. Shaking the Buddhas: Lafcadio Hearn in Japan, 1890–1904 163 David Taylor 12. ‘Chambres d’Asie, chambres d’ailleurs’: Nicole-Lise 179 Bernheim’s ‘Vertical Travels’ in Asia Katy Hindson 13. World Journey of My Heart and Homestay in the World: 193 Travel Programming and Contemporary Japanese Culture Mark Meli 14. After the Bubble: Post-Imperial Tokyo 209 Steve Clark Notes 229 References 265 Index 271 vi Contents ...