Jade mountains & cinnabar pools : the history of travel literature in imperial China /
"This broad-ranging study is the first book-length treatment in English or any other European language of Chinese travel literature (youji) as a genre. The material addressed, most of which was written by members of the scholar-official class, extends from the Six Dynasties period (220-581), wh...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Includes quotations translated into English from the Chinese. |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Special matters and technical terms
- Chronology of Chinese dynasties and historical periods
- Introduction
- Harbingers in the Six Dynasties
- Articulation in the Tang
- Maturity in the Song
- Transition and innovation in the Jīn, Yuan, and early to mid-Ming
- The golden age of travel writing in the late Ming
- Postface.