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In Touring China, Yajun Mo explores how early twentieth century
Chinese sightseers described the destinations that they visited,
and how their travel accounts gave Chinese readers a means to
imagine their vast country. The roots of China's tourism market
stretch back over a hundred years, when railroad and steamship
networks expanded into the coastal regions. Tourism-related
businesses and publications flourished in urban centers while
scientific exploration, investigative journalism, and wartime
travel propelled many Chinese from the eastern seaboard to its
peripheries. Mo considers not only accounts of overseas travel and
voyages across borderlands, but also trips within China. On the one
hand, via travel and travel writing, the unity of China's coastal
regions, inland provinces, and western frontiers was experienced
and reinforced. On the other, travel literature revealed a
persistent tension between the aspiration for national unity and
the anxiety that China might fall apart. Touring China tells a
fascinating story about the physical and intellectual routes people
took on various journeys, against the backdrop of the transition
from Chinese empire to nation-state.
In Touring China, Yajun Mo explores how early twentieth century
Chinese sightseers described the destinations that they visited,
and how their travel accounts gave Chinese readers a means to
imagine their vast country. The roots of China's tourism market
stretch back over a hundred years, when railroad and steamship
networks expanded into the coastal regions. Tourism-related
businesses and publications flourished in urban centers while
scientific exploration, investigative journalism, and wartime
travel propelled many Chinese from the eastern seaboard to its
peripheries. Mo considers not only accounts of overseas travel and
voyages across borderlands, but also trips within China. On the one
hand, via travel and travel writing, the unity of China's coastal
regions, inland provinces, and western frontiers was experienced
and reinforced. On the other, travel literature revealed a
persistent tension between the aspiration for national unity and
the anxiety that China might fall apart. Touring China tells a
fascinating story about the physical and intellectual routes people
took on various journeys, against the backdrop of the transition
from Chinese empire to nation-state.
The authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and
sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred years of the
history of China have been no less geographical than social,
political, or economic. From the dialectics of local-empire
relations to the imperial state's persistent array of projects for
absorbing and transforming ethnic regions on the margins of empire;
from the tripling of imperial territories in the Qing to the
disputes over the identity of the former "outer zones" in the early
Republican era; and from the universalistic imagination of
"all-under-heaven" to the fraught processes of re-drawing a new set
of nation-state boundaries in the twentieth century, the study of
the dynamics of geography, broadly conceived, promises to provide
insight into the contested development of the geographical entity
which we, today, call 'China.'
The authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and
sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred years of the
history of China have been no less geographical than social,
political, or economic. From the dialectics of local-empire
relations to the imperial state's persistent array of projects for
absorbing and transforming ethnic regions on the margins of empire;
from the tripling of imperial territories in the Qing to the
disputes over the identity of the former "outer zones" in the early
Republican era; and from the universalistic imagination of
"all-under-heaven" to the fraught processes of re-drawing a new set
of nation-state boundaries in the twentieth century, the study of
the dynamics of geography, broadly conceived, promises to provide
insight into the contested development of the geographical entity
which we, today, call 'China.'
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