Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph (Hardcover)) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Visionary Journeys This book explores two important moments of dislocation in Chinese history, the early medieval period (317--589 CE) and the nineteenth century. Tian juxtaposes a rich array of materials from these two periods in comparative study, linking these historical moments in their unprecedented interactions, and intense fascination, with foreign cultures.
Full description- Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
- Published: 03 January 2012
- Format: Hardback 398 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: General | Asian History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900 | Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9780674062528 ISBN 10: 0674062523
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Full description for Visionary Journeys
This book explores the parallel and yet profoundly different ways of seeing the outside world and engaging with the foreign at two important moments of dislocation in Chinese history, namely, the early medieval period commonly known as the Northern and Southern Dynasties (317--589 CE), and the nineteenth century. Xiaofei Tian juxtaposes literary, historical, and religious materials from these two periods in comparative study, bringing them together in their unprecedentedly large-scale interactions, and their intense fascination, with foreign cultures. By examining various cultural forms of representation from the two periods, Tian attempts to sort out modes of seeing the world that inform these writings. These modes, Tian argues, were established in early medieval times and resurfaced, in permutations and metamorphoses, in nineteenth-century writings on encountering the Other. This book is for readers who are interested not only in early medieval or nineteenth-century China but also in issues of representation, travel, visualization, and modernity.
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