Yajun Mo, "Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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Ism - A Novel of the Modern Chinese Space
In the urbans, urban areas, for example, china adopted gregari calendar in 19 12. Some of the urban or citizens in shanghai and other major cities join the tours and clubs,. So you have all these kind of phenomena also combined with the restructuring of time associate with industrialization throughout the world. And part of your argument is that turism should be understanding and should be understood as one of the driving forces in the idea of the modern chinese space and modern chinese nation. How did you come to ism? Though? I find your argument very clear and persuasive.
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