Inscribed Landscapes
Travel Writing from Imperial China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3966708 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah Rudolph, Richard E Strassberg, Richard Strassberg (University of Colorado Denver) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 116 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/606380 |
| OpenAlex | W2061745120 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
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, history, and role in cultural mythology, but by the T'ang dynasty in the mid-eighth century certain historiographical and poetic discourses converged to form the 'travel account' (yu-chi) and later the 'travel diary' (jih-chi) as vehicles of personal expression and autobiography. These first-person narratives provide rich material for understanding the attitudes of Chinese literati toward place, nature, politics, and the self. The anthology is abundantly illustrated with paintings, portraits, maps, and drawings. Each selection is meticulously translated, carefully annotated, and prefaced by a brief description of the writer's life and work. The entire collection is introduced by an in-depth survey of the rise of Chinese travel writing as a cultural phenomenon. Inscribed Landscapes provides a unique resource for travelers as well as for scholars of Chinese literature, art, and history
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biography · China · Chinese literature · Historiography · History of China · Inscribed figure · Literature · Mythology · Narrative · Poetry · Politics · Portrait · Travel writing · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Travel Writing and Literature
Backpacking in China
Galloping Our Minds Beyond the Boundaries”
Dialectics of Authentication
Travel and Cultural Understanding
Travel writing and Xinjiang
What Landscape Meant for the Early Medieval Chinese Gentry
Yuan Jie 元結 (719–772) as the Writer of Self-Distinction
Gui’an as a Centre for Writing about the World during the Late Ming Dynasty
A Mid-Ming Account of the Road Into Exile
Going Modern
Hargett, James M
The Sipsong Panna Tai and the Limits of Qing Conquest in Yunnan
Travel Culture in Eastern Jin China (317–420 Ad)
The Environmental Legacy of Imperial China
Confucian Views of Nature
The Comparative History of a Genre
The Chinese Literary Conquest of Xinjiang
A Daoist Career in Modern China
Qian Xuan Pounding the Balustrade
Chen Hongshou's Laments
The Making of the Chinese State
Images of China in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings (1720-1949)
Bilingual and intersemiotic representation of distance(s) in Chinese landscape painting
Korean Buddhist Journeys to Lands Worldly and Otherworldly
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2024 (27) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |