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LEADER: 02598cam a22003374a 4500
001 00012313
003 DLC
005 20050929171539.0
008 001106s2001 miua b s001 0 eng
010 $a 00012313
020 $a0472111973 (acid-free)
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050 00 $aDS709$b.C634 2001
082 00 $a915.104/4$221
100 1 $aClifford, N. J.$q(Nicholas J.)
245 12 $a"A truthful impression of the country" :$bBritish and American travel writing in china, 1880---1949 /$cNicholas Clifford.
260 $aAnn Arbor :$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$c2001.
300 $axxi, 231 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: i. Introduction: China in Translation -- 2. China Left Behind -- Timelessness and the Absence of History 23 -- Women and Men: The Observation of Change 28 -- The Purposes and Conditions of Travel 34 -- Country and City 38 -- Chinese Characteristics: Dirt, Dissimulation, -- and Depravity 46 -- 3. Prescriptions for Change -- Culture and Civilization 51 -- Teaching by Example: Hong Kong and the Treaty Ports 59 -- Teaching by Preaching: Missionaries of the Secular -- and Sacred 61 -- Changes Seen and Unseen 65 -- 4. The Search for the Authentic -- China through New Eyes 73 -- Conditions of Travel 83 -- Four Roads to Chinese Reality 89 -- 5. Journeys to the Past and Journeys to the Heartland -- Beijing: The Journey to Antiquity 93 -- Back of the Treaty Ports: The Journey to the Interior 105 -- Chinese Characteristics: Misfortune, Cruelty, -- and Authenticity Ilo -- 6. Journeys in the Present and Journeys to the Future -- Modern China: The Treaty Ports and Hong Kong 115 -- China's Future: Nationalists and Communists 127 -- 7. War Books -- Conditions of Travel 143 -- Their War and Our War 149 -- Two Chinas at War 156 -- The Roads to Yan'an 166 -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
651 0 $aChina$xDescription and travel.
650 0 $aTravelers' writings, English$zChina$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aTravelers' writings, American$zChina$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aBritish$zChina$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aBritish$zChina$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAmericans$zChina$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAmericans$zChina$xHistory$y20th century.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/umich051/00012313.html
856 4 $3Table of Contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/00012313.html