Travel Writing in Mongolia and Northern China, 1860-2020

1860–2020 invites readers to explore Mongolia as an important cultural space for Western travelers and their audiences over three historical eras. Travelers have framed their experiences and observations through imaginative geographies and Orientalizing discourses, fixing Mongolia as a peripheral, t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marzluf, Phillip (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2023.
Edition:1st ed
Series:North East Asian Studies
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009760340106719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Frans Larson’s Edenic Mongolia and the Possibilities of Cosmopolitanism
  • 2 Language Scenes in Travel Writing about Mongolia: Hybrids and Heroes
  • 3 Traveling Women : Beatrix Bulstrode’s A Tour in Mongolia and Strategies of Reflection
  • 4 Byambyn Rinchen’s and Tsendiin Damdinsüren’s Socialist Travel Writing : Nationalist, Internationalist, and Cosmopolitan Strategies
  • 5 Contemporary Travel Writing about Mongolia : Imaginative Geographies and Cosmopolitan Visions
  • 6 Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem and the Myth of Mongolian Pastoralism
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index