The lure of China
Subtitle: history and literature from Marco Polo to J.G. Ballard
By: Frances Wood.
Publisher: Long River Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781592650828
Subjects: European literature -- History and criticism; Travelers' writings, European -- History and criticism; China -- In literature; China -- Description and travel
Table of contents: title: Marco Polo and the missionaries; title: Fabulous Cathay and the age of discovery; title: Jesuit China; title: Nieuhoff's account; title: Daniel Defoe on China; title: Lord Macartney; title: Diplomatic China; title: Malraux in the Chinese Revolution; title: Somerset Maugham on China; title: Stella Benson; title: Ann Bridge; title: Travellers; title: Old Etonians; title: Bloomsbury in China; title: Pioneering journalists; title: Wartime visitors; title: Collecting China; title: Shanghai; title: Childhood in China.