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Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China
Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China
Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China
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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.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
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 t
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Release dateSep 1, 2023
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Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China

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    This sublime anthology perfectly captures the classical Chinese sensitivity for mountain landscapes. The feeling of these writers for the natural beauty and solitude of these places was not approached by westerners until well into the 20th century.

    It's almost too rich a confection. I had to take a long break as one description blended with another, but I found the whole thing a wonderful demonstration of how Buddhism, Taoism, and neo-Confucianism shaped the Chinese relationship with the land.

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