Traditions of East Asian Travel

"Although the topic of travel and travel writing by Chinese and Japanese writers has recently begun to attract more interest among scholars in the West, it remains largely virgin terrain with vast tracts awaiting scholarly examination. This book offers insights into how East Asians traveled in the early modern and modern periods, what they looked for, what they felt comfortable finding, and the ways in which they wrote up their impressions of these experiences."--Page 4 of cover Contents Preface: Traditions of East Asian Travel CHAPTER 1 Su Shi and Mount Lu CHAPTER 2 Travel as Poetic Practice in Medieval and Early Modern Japan CHAPTER 3 Women’s Travel Narratives in Early Modern Japan: Genre Imperatives, Gender Consciousness and Status Questioning CHAPTER 4 Discovered Other, Recovered Self: Layers of Representation in an Early Travelogue on the West (Xihai jiyou cao, 1849) CHAPTER 5 The West as a ‘Kingdom of Women’: Woman and Occidentalism in Wang Tao’s Tales of Travel CHAPTER 6 A Wartime Cinematic Recreation of the Journey Linking China and Japan in the Modern Era CHAPTER 7 ‘Would That I Were Marco Polo’: The Travel Writing of Shan Shili (1856–1943) CHAPTER 8 A Letter from the Past and the Present: Tokutomi Roka’s ‘Autumn in Ryōmō ’ Index