The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1
The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1

Author: Xavier Guégan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1137304154

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This book considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration – and exploitation – of other lands and peoples.

Letters to Henrietta
Letters to Henrietta

Author: Isabella Lucy Bird

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781555535544

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The legendary Victorian traveler's previously unpublished letters to her homebound sister.

Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries
Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9004348956

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Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries explores women’s and men’s contributions to the arts and gendered visual representations in China, Korea, and Japan from the premodern through modern eras. A critical introduction and nine essays consider how threads of continuity and exchanges between the cultures of East Asia, Europe, and the United States helped to shape modernity in this region, in the process revealing East Asia as a vital component of the trans-Pacific world. The essays are organized into three themes: representations of femininity, women as makers, and constructions of gender, and they consider examples of architecture, painting, woodblock prints and illustrated books, photography, and textiles. Contributors are: Lara C. W. Blanchard, Kristen L. Chiem, Charlotte Horlyck, Ikumi Kaminishi, Nayeon Kim, Sunglim Kim, Radu Leca, Elizabeth Lillehoj, Ying-chen Peng, and Christina M. Spiker. Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries is now available in paperback for individual customers.

Asian Crossings
Asian Crossings

Author: Steve Clark

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2008-07-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 9622099149

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The fourteen chapters in this book examine various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, Japan and Southeast Asia. From the first Colombian on a trade mission to China, to French women travellers in Asia, and the opening of "Japan Fairs" in the US during the latter half of the nineteenth century, this book offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse of the various cultures in the eyes of their beholders coupled with insightful understanding of the various politics and relationships that are involved. While this book will appeal to expert scholars and students of travel literature and Asian studies, as well as those working on cultural studies, general readers will also find it an interesting and accessible addition to their collections.

Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan
Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan

Author: Tomoe Kumojima

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0198871430

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Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan narrates forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship and love between Victorian female travellers and Meiji Japanese between 1853 and 1912.