Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949 | Cornell Scholarship Online (2024)

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Yajun Mo

Yajun Mo

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15 December 2021

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Mo, Yajun, and Eric G. E. Zuelow, Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949 (Ithaca, NY, 2021; online edn, Cornell Scholarship Online, 19 May 2022), https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501760624.001.0001, accessed 20 July 2024.

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This book 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. The book 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. The book 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.

Keywords: Chinese sightseers, Chinese tourism, China, overseas travel, travel literature, Chinese empire

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Asian History

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Eric G. E. Zuelow

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Who was the first person to visit China? ›

Polo's 13th Century journey to China was the first to be well-documented. However, Chinese historians recorded much earlier visits by people thought by some to have been emissaries from the Roman Empire during the Second and Third Centuries AD.

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The first Chinese-operated travel agency, in China was founded by banker Chen Guangfu in 1923. Tourism began emerging as part of bourgeois lifestyle and a nascent industry during China's nationalist era.

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Recently discovered ancient scripts suggest Chinese explorers may have discovered America long before the Europeans arrived there, a report says. It was Christopher Columbus who discovered America but new evidence suggests the Chinese were exploring America at least a thousand years before Christ.

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Under the Ming, China was the 'Great Ming,' under the Qing, China was the 'Great Qing,' and so on. Yet on unofficial documents, the name 'Zhongguo' lived on. The full given name of China today is 'Zhonghua Renmin Gong He Guo,' or People's Republic of China.

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1269: First expedition of the Italians Niccolò and Maffeo Polo to China. In 1266 they reach Kublai Khan's seat at Dadu (now known as Beijing) in China. 1271–1295: Second trip of Niccolò and Maffeo Polo to China.

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Fa Hien was the first Chinese traveller to visit India. He was born in 374 AD in Xansi. He was a follower of Buddhism. His goal of the journey to India was to find the true copy of the book detailing the traditions in Buddhism and to visit the Buddhist pilgrimage centres here.

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The earliest H. erectus fossils in all of China, Yuanmou Man, may date to 1.7 million years ago, though stone tools from the Shangchen site in Lantian, central China, extend the occupation of the region to as far back as 2.12 million years ago.

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Paleolithic (1.7 Ma – 12 ka) The archaic human species of hom*o erectus arrived in Eurasia sometime between 1.3 and 1.8 million years ago (Ma) and numerous remains of its subspecies have been found in what is now China.

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