Re-Orienting China: Travel Writing and Cross-Cultural Understanding

By Leilei Chen

Re-Orienting China challenges the notion of the travel writer as "imperialistic," while exploring the binary opposition of self and other.

Featuring analyses of rarely studied writers on post-1949 China, including Jan Wong, Jock T. Wilson, Peter Hessler, Leslie T. Chang, Hill Gates, and Yi-Fu Tuan, Re-Orienting China demonstrates the transformative power of travel, as it changes our preconceived notions of home and abroad.

Drawing on her own experience as a Chinese expat living in Canada, Leilei Chen embraces the possibility of productive cross-border relationships that are critical in today's globalized world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889774404
• ISBN13: 9780889774407
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of Regina Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"