asian crossings : travel writing on china, japan and south-east asia

The fourteen chapters in this book examine various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, Japan and Southeast Asia. From the first Colombian on a trade mission to China, to French women travellers in Asia, and the opening of "Japan Fairs" in the US during the latter half of the nineteenth century, this book offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse of the various cultures in the eyes of their beholders coupled with insightful understanding of the various politics and relationships that are involved.

While this book will appeal to expert scholars and students of travel literature and Asian studies, as well as those working on cultural studies, general readers will also find it an interesting and accessible addition to their collections.

作者簡介：

Steve Clark is currently visiting professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo. Among his previous publications are Travel Writing and Empire: Postcolonial Theory in Transit (1999) and The Reception of Blake in the Orient (with Masashi Suzuki, 2006). Current projects include Liberating Medicine 1720–1830 (with Tristanne Connolly), and a collection of essays on the late thought of Paul Ricoeur.

Paul Smethurst is an associate professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. His publications include The Postmodern Chronotope: Reading Space and Time in Contemporary Fiction (2000), Travel Writing, Form and Empire: The Poetics and Politics of Mobility (2008) and The Reinvention of Nature: Scientific, Picturesque and Romantic Travel Writing 1760–1840 (forthcoming).

• 出版社： 香港大學出版社 出版日期：2008-07-01 ISBN/ISSN：9622099149
• 語言：繁體中文 裝訂方式：精裝
• 類別： 中文書> 歷史地理> 西方國別史