Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China 神遊：中國中古時代與十九世紀行旅寫作

Author: 
Xaiofei, Tian

Publisher: 
Harvard University Asia Center

Publication Year: 
2011

Abstract: 
This book explores two important moments of dislocation in Chinese history, the early medieval period (317–589 CE) and the nineteenth century. Tian juxtaposes a rich array of materials from these two periods in comparative study, linking these historical moments in their unprecedented interactions, and intense fascination, with foreign cultures.

Table of Contents:

Seeing with the mind's eye --
Journeys to other worlds --
Xie Lingyun, Poet of purgatory --
The rhetorical schemata of seeing --
Poetry and experience in the nineteenth century.