Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing From Imperial China/: Translated by author with annotations and introduction by Richard E. Strassberg
de Strassberg, Richard E.
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lg8vo aqua cloth, gilt spine titles, PO Prof Jack Wills signed to fep with his underlining and notes in text, ow VG/vgdj: xxv, [2] map, 580pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index, Glossary of chinchars. Illustrated paintings, portraits, maps and drawings in 64 b&w figures. An offprint copy of Prof Wills review of this book from The China Quarterly with additional afterthoughts in his handwriting is tucked in; Acclaimed as the only comprehensive collection to date in English of Chinese travel writing from the 1st-19th centuries, from Professor of Chinese at UCLA/ASSOCIATION: John E. Wills, Jr. 1936-2017, Longtime USC China Studies Professor was PO of this volume and has signed his full name to fep; this is probably the copy from which he wrote his review for The China Quarterly which is tucked in. Wills was a prolific scholar of works on relations between China and the West during the age of exploration; his book on the Ming-Qing transition period entitled 1688: A Global History. is now a classic
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- Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing From Imperial China/
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- Strassberg, Richard E.
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- 64 b&w figures.from Chinese sources
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- Lg8vo aqua cloth, gilt spine titles
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- University of California Press
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- xxv, [2] map, 580pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index, Glossary of chinchars. Illustrated by paintings, portraits, maps and drawings i
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- 1994
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- lg8vo
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- China, travel, landscape, transportation, architecture, ecology, enlvironment
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