Alongside the scores of travel books about China written by foreign visitors, Chinese travelers' impressions of their own country rarely appear in translation. This anthology is the only comprehensive collection in English of Chinese travel writing from the first century A.D. through the nineteenth. Early examples of the genre describe sites important for their geography, histo...(展开全部)

During the Song (960-1279), all educated Chinese men traveled frequently, journeying long distances to attend school and take civil service examinations. They crisscrossed the country to assume government posts, report back to the capital, and return home between assignments and to attend to family matters. Based on a wide array of texts, Transformative Journeys analyzes the im...(展开全部)

Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to China and Korea. The early centuries of the Abbasid era witnessed a substantial n...(展开全部)

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 bu...(展开全部)

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 bu...(展开全部)

The inspiring story of one man's love for God and his unflinching commitment to present the Gospel of Christ to the Chinese. This book recounts the thrilling story of Hudson Taylor and the eventual formation of the China Inland Mission. Hudson Taylor left England on September 19, 1853, and did not reach China until spring of the following year. The long and arduous voyage, pers...(展开全部)

段义孚是享誉世界的美国华裔人文主义地理学大师，在地理学理论、园林建筑、文学、宗教等研究领域都作出过举世瞩目的贡献。他关注人的问题，注重人性、人情，其思想见解发人深省，因而被公认为“拥有超然灵魂之正义之声”。他著作颇丰，代表作品有：《恋地情结：对环境感知、态度和价值观的研究》(Topophilia：A Studh of Environmental Perception，Attitudes ,and Values)、《经验透视中的空间与地方》(Spoce and Plac:The Perspective ofExPerience)、《撕裂的世界与自我：群体生活和个体意识》(Segmented Worlds and self:Group Life andIndividual COILSciousness)、《逃避主义》(Escapism)等等。 他一生荣获...(展开全部)

In the summer of 2005, distinguished geographer Yi-Fu Tuan ventured to China to speak at an international architectural conference, returning for the first time to the place he had left as a child sixty-four years before. He traveled from Beijing to Shanghai, addressing college audiences, floating down the Yangtze River on a riverboat, and visiting his former home in Chongqing...(展开全部)