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Pak Chiwon
KEY FEATURE(S) This is the first translation into English of the eighteenth-century Korean masterpiece entitled Yorha ilgi (‘The Jehol Diary’) by Pak Chiwon (1737-1805). The original text was written in classical Chinese and is a notoriously difficult work to translate.
Pak Chiwon diarises the experiences of his remarkable overland journey on horseback from the northern border region of Korea to China’s imperial summer residence in Jehol. Having been commanded by Kin... |
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Discovering a 'New' Land
Lorraine Sterry
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) This volume complements other published works about travel by nineteenth-century women by locating and creating a ‘space’ for Japan which is missing within recent critical discourses on travel writing. It examines the narratives of women writers who travelled to Japan from the mid-1850s onwards, when Japan was first opened to the West, and became a highly desirable travel destination for decades thereafter.
Many women travelled, and although most left no record of their journeys, enough did to form a discrete body of literature spanning more than fifty years, from the end of the feudal Tokugawa era to th... |
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EDITED by Toni Huberman, Sonia Ashmore, Yasuko Suga
KEY FEATURE(S) Charles Holme’s detailed record of his travels through Japan, including the homeward journey via the west coast of the US and Canada, is published here for the first time, together with all fifty plates from the original limited edition of his companion Emma Liberty’s Japan, A Pictorial Record, with commentaries. Both diary and photographs provide scholars and researchers with a rare archive.
A key figure in Europe’s art world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and founder of The Studio art magazine, Charles Holme was a significant disseminator of Japanese art and art go... |
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Si-woo Lee
KEY FEATURE(S) The author’s now celebrated quest, through narrative and photography, to capture today’s built and natural environment and way of life along the Min Tong Line (Demilitarized Zone – DMZ) separating the two Koreas, is both a stunning literary and photographic achievement.
Supported by 150 colour photographs, the book by one of Korea’s renowned photographers who is also a well-known peace activist, takes the reader from Chulwon in the east to Kosung in the west, interwe... |
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Herbert Plutschow
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
KEY FEATURE(S) Considered by some to encompass the author’s most significant research to date, this in-depth gateway study of Edo travel literature, which has been largely ignored by Western scholars,
examines in particular fifteen of the period’s most notable travellers, some of whom are known
intellectuals, artists or poets, or folklorists and natural scientists, but rarely, if at all, as travellers.
Plutschow’s research, which has considerable interdisciplinary appeal, takes us from domain civil servant and botanist, Kaibara Ekiken (1630–1714) to former priest, intellectual and government officia... |
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An interpretative guide
J.E. Hoare and Susan Pares
CHARGÉ D'AFFAIRES, PYONGYANG, 2001-2002
KEY FEATURE(S) J.E.Hoare, who is a leading scholar of Korean affairs, and a recently retired diplomat, was responsible for setting up the first British Embassy in Pyongyang during 2001-2002. As Chargé d’Affaires and Consul General over a period of nearly two years, he had unique access to many aspects of the North Korean Administration, the functioning of business and industry, and the country as a whole.
Written in conjunction with his wife Susan Pares, former Editor of Asian Affairs, who lived through the experiences, and co-authored with him an earlier general introduction to Korea, this volu... |
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An interpretative guide
J.E. Hoare and Susan Pares
CHARGÉ D'AFFAIRES, PYONGYANG, 2001-2002
KEY FEATURE(S) J.E.Hoare, who is a leading scholar of Korean affairs, and a recently retired diplomat, was responsible for setting up the first British Embassy in Pyongyang during 2001-2002. As Chargé d’Affaires and Consul General over a period of nearly two years, he had unique access to many aspects of the North Korean Administration, the functioning of business and industry, and the country as a whole.
Written in conjunction with his wife Susan Pares, former Editor of Asian Affairs, who lived through the experiences, and co-authored with him an earlier general introduction to Korea, this volu... |
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In the Footsteps of Hiroshige
Patrick Carey
REITAKU UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) Based on the author’s epic walk, this is
the remarkable story of personal commitment in the literal
‘rediscovery’ of the old Tokugawa highway connecting
Edo (Tokyo) with Kyoto, which Japanese today believe to
have been obliterated by twentieth-century modernization.
Following in the footsteps of Hiroshige’s own experience of travelling the Tokaido, in 1832, recorded in his famous woodblock series 'The Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido', which are reproduced here ... |
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