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Visionary journeys : travel writings from early medieval and nineteenth-century China / Xiaofei Tian.

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
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
9780674062528
LCCN
^^2011012642
OCLC
  • 709670274
  • SCSB-10465626
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library