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• ISBN 10: 0295744480
• ISBN 13: 9780295744483
• Author: James M. Hargett

First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places. In Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools, the first book-length treatment in English of Chinese travel literature (youji), James M. Hargett identifies and examines core works in the genre, from the Six Dynasties period (220–581), when its essential characteristics emerged, to its florescence in the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644). He traces the dynamic process through which the genre, most of which was written by scholars and officials, developed, and shows that key features include a journey toward an identifiable place; essay or diary format; description of places, phenomena, and conditions, accompanied by authorial observations, comments, and even personal feelings; inclusion of sensory details; and narration of movement through space and time.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Harbingers in the Six Dynasties

Chapter 2: Articulation in the Tang

Chapter 3: Maturity in the Song

Chapter 4: Transition and Innovation in the Jīn, Yuan, and Early to Mid-Ming

Chapter 5: The Golden Age of Travel Writing in the Late Ming

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