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Paperback Xu Xiake (1586-1641): The Art of Travel Writing Book

ISBN: 1138863270

ISBN13: 9781138863279

Xu Xiake (1586-1641): The Art of Travel Writing

In this, the first full-length study in English of China's best-known travel writer, new light is shed on the importance of the diaries of Xu Xiake (1587-1687) a compulsive traveller who spent a lifetime visiting and writing about China's 'beauty spots'. The general view of his work, that he brought a sober, analytical approach to a genre previously the domain of the dillentante and that his writing was 'utilitarian' and lacking in literary merit...

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