Yajun Mo, "Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
New Books in Chinese Studies
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Tourism in the 20th Century
In the urbans, urban areas, for example, china adopted gregarian calendar in 19 12. Mark our difference, or a huge difference, from the prubious ta t late imperial, imperial period. How did you come to tourism, though? I find your argument very clear and persuasive. But how to get there? As this is an essential part of the larger story. En part of it is, again, it's the sources. Let me there. And part of your argument is that tourism should be understood as one of the driving forces in the idea of the modern chinese space and modern Chinese nation.
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