Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools - The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China Hargett James M.Paperback / softback
Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools - The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China Hargett James M.Paperback / softback First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the…
Specifikacia Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools - The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China Hargett James M.Paperback / softback
Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools - The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China Hargett James M.Paperback / softback
First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places. Hargett identifies and examines core works in the genre, from the Six Dynasties period (220-581), when its essential characteristics emerged, to its florescence in the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644). In Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools, the first book-length treatment in English of Chinese travel literature (youji), James M.
He traces the dynamic process through which the genre, most of which was written by scholars and officials, developed, and shows that key features include a journey toward an identifiable place; essay or diary format; description of places, phenomena, and conditions, accompanied by authorial observations, comments, and even personal feelings; inclusion of sensory details; and narration of movement through space and