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Visionary journeys : travel writings from early medieval and nineteenth-century China

Title
Visionary journeys : travel writings from early medieval and nineteenth-century China / Xiaofei Tian.
Author
Tian, Xiaofei, 1971-
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2011.

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Description
xii, 381 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 78
Uniform Title
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 78.
Subject
  • Travelers' writings, Chinese > History and criticism
  • Travel in literature
  • Foreign countries in literature
  • Displacement (Psychology) in literature
  • Visualization in literature
  • Chinese > Foreign countries > Historiography
  • Literature and history > China > History > Northern and Southern dynasties, 386-589
  • Literature and history > China > History > 19th century
  • China > Civilization > Foreign influences
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Seeing with the mind's eye: the discourse of visualization and imagination -- Journeys to other worlds -- Poet of purgatory -- The rhetorical schemata of seeing -- Poetry and experience in the 19th century.
Call Number
JFE 12-598
ISBN
  • 9780674062528
  • 0674062523
LCCN
2011012642
OCLC
709670274
Author
Tian, Xiaofei, 1971-
Title
Visionary journeys : travel writings from early medieval and nineteenth-century China / Xiaofei Tian.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2011.
Series
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 78
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 78.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-598
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