Book ID: CBB314439736

Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949 (2021)

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Yajun Mo (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 318
Language: English

In Touring China, Yajun Mo explores how early twentieth century Chinese sightseers described the destinations that they visited, and how their travel accounts gave Chinese readers a means to imagine their vast country. The roots of China's tourism market stretch back over a hundred years, when railroad and steamship networks expanded into the coastal regions. Tourism-related businesses and publications flourished in urban centers while scientific exploration, investigative journalism, and wartime travel propelled many Chinese from the eastern seaboard to its peripheries. Mo considers not only accounts of overseas travel and voyages across borderlands, but also trips within China. On the one hand, via travel and travel writing, the unity of China's coastal regions, inland provinces, and western frontiers was experienced and reinforced. On the other, travel literature revealed a persistent tension between the aspiration for national unity and the anxiety that China might fall apart. Touring China tells a fascinating story about the physical and intellectual routes people took on various journeys, against the backdrop of the transition from Chinese empire to nation-state.

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Authors & Contributors
Susan Branson
Readman, Paul
Yu, Xiaobo
Ross, Shawna
Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh
Kogman-Appel, Katrin
Concepts
Science and culture
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
National identity
Travel; exploration
Landscape; landscapes
Nation building
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
20th century
Early modern
Medieval
Places
China
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
England
Valencia (Spain)
Romania
Institutions
Polytechnic Touring Association
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