Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.

Updated and expanded throughtout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field.

玛丽·路易斯·普拉特 Mary Louise Pratt，纽约大学西葡语言文学教授，曾任斯坦福大学奥利芙·H.帕尔默人文学教授。早年在多伦多大学获得现代语言文学学士学位，在伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校获得语言学硕士学位，1975年在斯坦福大学获得比较文学博士学位。研究兴趣广泛，涉及拉丁美洲文学与社会、比较文学、 性别研究、殖民主义与帝国主义文化研究等诸多领域。2003年任现代语言协会主席。

玛丽·路易斯·普拉特 Mary Louise Pratt，纽约大学西葡语言文学教授，曾任斯坦福大学奥利芙·H.帕尔默人文学教授。早年在多伦多大学获得现代语言文学学士学位，在伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校获得语言学硕士学位，1975年在斯坦福大学获得比较文学博士学位。研究兴趣广泛，涉及拉丁美洲文学与社会、比较文学、 性别研究、殖民主义与帝国主义文化研究等诸多领域。2003年任现代语言协会主席。

Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writing in the Modern Age seeks to understand, expand, and challenge the boundaries of the modern travelogue across several literary traditions. Through an engaging cast of characters—China-bound missionaries, an Indo-Persian diplomat, a Turkish exile in India, a French schoolteacher touring America, Arab students in Moscow, a Japanese woman...(展开全部)

Placing Empire examines the spatial politics of Japanese imperialism through a study of Japanese travel and tourism to Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan between the late nineteenth century and the early 1950s. In a departure from standard histories of Japan, this book shows how debates over the role of colonized lands reshaped the social and spatial imaginary of the modern Japanese ...(展开全部)

How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and British lawyers imagine China and Chinese law? What happened when agents of presumably dominant Western empires had to endure the humiliations and anxieties of maintaining a profitable but precarious relationship with China? In Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes, Li Chen provides a richly ...(展开全部)

Until 300 years ago, the Chinese considered Taiwan a "land beyond the seas," a "ball of mud" inhabited by "naked and tattooed savages." The incorporation of this island into the Qing empire in the seventeenth century and its evolution into a province by the late nineteenth century involved not only a reconsideration of imperial geography but also a reconceptualization of the Ch...(展开全部)