The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, first published in 1899, contains
the account by the redoubtable Isabella Bird (now Mrs J. F. Bishop)
of a journey through central China in 1896 1897. The volume focuses
on her travels though the province of Szechuan and among the
Man-tze of the Somo territory. Many of the areas she explored and
carefully described were almost unknown to European visitors and
had not been mentioned in any earlier English publications. The
volume is based on journal letters and the diary written during her
journey, and it is generously illustrated with photographs and
Chinese drawings. Bishop's work was warmly received in England and
praised especially for the information included on agriculture and
industry. The Geographical Journal heralded the work as
'undoubtedly one of the most important contributions to English
literature on that country'. It remains a key source for late
nineteenth-century British perceptions of China.
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