新书：莫亚军 Touring China：A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949
Touring China：A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949
作者：YAJUN MO
出版社：Cornell University Press
出版时间： 12/15/2021
页数: 318
ISBN13: 9781501761041
本书简介
In Touring China, Yajun Mo explores how early twentieth century Chinese sightseers described the destinations that they visited, and how their travel accounts gave Chinese readers a means to imagine their vast country.
The roots of China's tourism market stretch back over a hundred years, when railroad and steamship networks expanded into the coastal regions. Tourism-related businesses and publications flourished in urban centers while scientific exploration, investigative journalism, and wartime travel propelled many Chinese from the eastern seaboard to its peripheries. Mo considers not only accounts of overseas travel and voyages across borderlands, but also trips within China. On the one hand, via travel and travel writing, the unity of China's coastal regions, inland provinces, and western frontiers was experienced and reinforced. On the other, travel literature revealed a persistent tension between the aspiration for national unity and the anxiety that China might fall apart. Touring China tells a fascinating story about the physical and intellectual routes people took on various journeys, against the backdrop of the transition from Chinese empire to nation-state.
作者简介
莫亚军（Yajun Mo），先后毕业于复旦大学、加州大学、香港中文大学、加州大学圣克鲁兹分校，历史学博士，现任美国波士顿学院（Boston college）历史系助理教授。学术兴趣囊括了现代中国，现代东亚，旅行交通史以及女性史与性别史。她目前主要从事两项工作，一项是她正在完成关于现代中国的旅游文化和旅游业（1866-1954）的书稿，以追溯现代中国旅游业的发展来展现其多样性历程。另一项研究则与现代中国的影像人类学先驱庄学本相关。
目录
Introduction: Tourism, Travel Culture, and the Making of the Chinese National Space
1. Travel as a Business: The Making of Modern Chinese Tourism
2. Travel as Narratives: Producing Quanguo through Travel Print Media
3. "Head to the Northwest": Modern China's Movement Westward
4. Facilitating the Exodus: Wartime Travel and the Southwest
5. Between Empire and Nation-State:: Tourism and Travel in Manchuria and Taiwan, 1912–1949
Conclusion: Legacies of Republican-Era Tourism and Travel Culture
PRAISE
"Touring China persuasively de-Westernizes the history of tourism in China. A fascinating and important book, it draws on an extensive range of sources with great skill."
John M. Carroll, University of Hong Kong, author of A Concise History of Hong Kong
"Yajun Mo impressively combines entertaining stories with clear arguments. Her topic is rich and Touring China does not disappoint. Indeed, it exposes a fundamental feature of modernity: to be a modern nation is to be a nation of tourists."
James Carter, Saint Joseph's University, author of Champions Day
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