Asian crossings
Subtitle: travel writing on China, Japan and Southeast Asia
By: edited by Steve Clark and Paul Smethurst.
Contributors: Clark, S. H. 1957-; Smethurst, Paul.
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press; Eurospan [distributor]
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hong Kong; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9789622099142; 9789622099159
Subjects: Travelers' writings -- History and criticism; China -- Description and travel; Japan -- Description and travel; Southeast Asia -- Description and travel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Between topos and topography : Japanese early modern travel literature  -- Robert F. Wittkamp; title: 'First appearance of this celebrated capital' ; or, what Mr. Barrow saw in the land of the Chinaman  -- Joe Sample; title: Reading of readings : English travel books, audiences, and modern Chinese history, c. 1832 to present  -- Ting Man Tsao; title: Travel and business : the first Colombian in China  -- Jacinto Fombona; title: Erasing footsteps : on some differences between the first and popular editions of Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan  -- Shizen Ozawa; title: Discourses of difference : the Malaya of Isabella Bird, Emily Innes and Florence Caddy  -- Eddie Tay; title: China of the tourists : women and the Grand Tour of the Middle Kingdom, 1878-1923  -- Julia Kuehn; title: Ruins in the jungle : nature and narrative  -- Douglas Kerr; title: Forbidden journeys to China and beyond with the odd couple : Ella Maillart and Peter Fleming  -- Maureen Mulligan; title: Kawakami Otojiro's trip to the West and Taiwan at the turn of the twentieth century  -- Yukari Yoshihara; title: Shaking the Buddhas : Lafcadio Hearn in Japan, 1890-1904  -- David Taylor; title: 'Chambres d'Asie, chambres d'ailleurs' : Nicole-Lise Bernheim's 'vertical travels' in Asia  -- Katy Hindson; title: World Journey of My Heart and Homestay in the World : travel programming and contemporary Japanese culture  -- Mark Meli; title: After the Bubble : post-Imperial Tokyo -- Steve Clark.