Yajun Mo, "Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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Travel Writing - The Fluid Moment
i think in travel writing, the fluid, it is really about what people see on the spot and at a moment, is not quite always aline with what textbooks talk about. And ever provinces have this po ation and geography and culture, or food, or even may be textwith to cargo of food. O, they're i very much the urban class bourgeois, a kind of consumers. They thy, they have this assumption of their shared minds that lot of way could be, you know what? Maybe inin my book, i talk about there, they're sere to mysens be more than ragt that's their identity. And to certan degree, also trust
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