Travel Writing in Mongolia and Northern China, 1860-2020 invites readers to explore Mongolia as an important cultural space for Western travelers and their audiences over three historical eras. Travelers have framed their experiences and observations through imaginative geographies and Orientalizing discourses, fixing Mongolia as a peripheral, timeless, primitive, and parochial place. Readers can examine the travelers literary and rhetorical strategies as they make themselves more credible and authoritative and as they identify themselves with Mongolians and Mongolian culture or, conversely, distance themselves. In this book, readers can also approach travel writing from the perspective of women travelers, Mongolian socialist intellectuals, twenty-first-century travelers, and a Han Chinese writer, Jiang Rong, who promotes cultural harmony yet anticipates the disappearance of Mongolian culture in China.
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Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
Publication Date: 25 Aug 2023
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Publication City/Country: Netherlands
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789463726269
About Phillip Marzluf
Phillip P. Marzluf is Professor of English at Kansas State University. He has published Language Literacy and Social Change in Mongolia (Lexington 2018) and a co-edited collection Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia (Routledge 2021). His work about Mongolia has appeared in the Central Asian Survey the Journal of Asian Studies Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and other journals. Franck Billé is a cultural anthropologist based at the University of California Berkeley where he is program director for the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies. He is the author of Sinophobia (Hawaii 2015) coauthor of On the Edge (Harvard 2021) editor of Voluminous States (Duke 2020) and coeditor of Yellow Perils (Hawaii 2019) and Frontier Encounters (Open Book 2012). He is currently finalizing his latest book Somatic States: On Cartography Geobodies Bodily Integrity (Duke University Press). More information about his current research is available on his website: www.franckbille.com. Professor Caroline Humphrey Professor Humphrey is an anthropologist who has worked across Asia and countries of the former Soviet Union. She is currently based at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at Cambridge which she co-founded and she is a Director of Research at the Department of Social Anthropology. She has been a Fellow of King's since 1978.