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Chen, Leilei.

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The question of cross-cultural understanding in the transcultural travel narratives about post-1949 China.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The question of cross-cultural understanding in the transcultural travel narratives about post-1949 China./
作者:	Chen, Leilei.
面頁冊數:	264 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-10, Section: A, page: 3649.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-10A.
標題:	Literature, Modern. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR62475
ISBN:	9780494624753

The question of cross-cultural understanding in the transcultural travel narratives about post-1949 China.
Chen, Leilei.

The question of cross-cultural understanding in the transcultural travel narratives about post-1949 China. - 264 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-10, Section: A, page: 3649.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta (Canada), 2010.

My dissertation, "The Question of Cross-Cultural Understanding in the Transcultural Travel Narratives about Post-1949 China," aims to intervene in the genre of travel writing and its critical scholarship by studying a flourishing but under-explored archive. Travel literature about (post-) Communist China is abundant and has been proliferating since 1979 when China began to implement its open-door policy. Yet its scholarship is surprisingly scanty. Meanwhile, in the field of travel literature studies, many critics read the genre as one that articulates Western imperialism, an archive where peoples and cultures are defined within conveniently maintained boundaries between home and abroad, West and non-West. Others---in the field of literary and cultural studies as well as other disciplines---have started to question the binary power relationship. However, some of this work may well reinforce the binary opposition, seeking only evidences of the traveller's powerlessness in relation to the native; and some, conceiving travel only on a geographical plane, seems unable to transcend the dichotomy of home and abroad, East and West at a theoretical level.

ISBN: 9780494624753Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

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