This is an account of the first voyage up the Yangtze River by westerners in western dress (Catholic missionaries had preceded them in Chinese garb by a century or more), written by the British naval captain in charge, largely from the journal of Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, interpreter for the expedition and later Episcopalian Bishop [...]
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This book is a sublime adventure into the heart of another country led by a woman whose soul appears to remain in the culture of her birth. Though the author now resides in America,she has the ability to take the reader on a spell-binding journey along the most important avenues of understanding China in a [...]
Folks… this is the most basic of travel books.It skims over thehistory of China and then offers a few tips at the end of the chapter.The pronounciation guide is worthless at it does not begin to descibe how a person who was not educated in China would attempt the complicated sounds of Mandarin.The place names [...]
This is a book that the hard core student of Sino-Western relations or fanatic reader of dusty travel books will enjoy.The author tells us about the experiences of two or three dozen different British and American travelers to China, their impressions of the country, and how those impressions were influenced by their Western colonialist mentality. [...]
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In Frommer’s China expert J. D. Brown gives us more of a travel log than a travel guide, which in this case is a refreshing change.Very few people have seen China as extensively as J. D. Brown.His recording of his actual experience at each of the 50 destination will stimulate new itineraries for you to [...]
The oversized volume “China” is sheer beauty from cover to cover, with 238 magnificent photos depicting sites obscure and well-known across the vast, ancient country. We see scenes from such popular tourist sites as the Forbidden City, the terra-cotta soldiers of the Emperor Qin and the Great Wall. But we also get to see the [...]