[The China Project] Lonely Planet: Imperial China, by Xu Xiake
May 26, 2023
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Xu Xiake was China's first, most popular, and most prolific travel writer. He visited 16 modern provinces over more than three decades, and the observations he left behind, from the scientific to the mundane, provide us with a comprehensive guide to 17th-century China.
