{"product_id":"victorian-travelers-and-the-opening-susan-schoenbauer-thurin-9780821412688","title":"Victorian Travelers and the Opening of China 1842-1907","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree men and three women: a plant collector, a merchant and his novelist wife, a military officer, and two famous women travelers went to China between the Opium War and the formal end of the opium trade, 1842-1907. Their range of perspectives, their acquaintance with one another and their similar scope of travel to Hong Kong, the treaty ports, and Sichuan lend intensity to their picture of China and the Western presence there. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What the travelers record reveals is a continuity in the response of the West and China to each other. Susan Schoenbauer Thurin's study of these writings presents a rich tapestry of impressions, biases, and cultural perspectives that inform our own understanding of the Victorians and their views of the world outside their own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The strange mix of opium and missionaries, the aura of fabled \"Cathay\" and its valuable trade items, the attraction and repulsion of the exotic otherness the travelers experience, reflect the political, religious, and racial views of their era, and explain the allure of the Orient that, in part, characterized their age. \u003ci\u003eVictorian Travelers and the Opening of China, 1842-1907\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable look into the cultural past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Schoenbauer Thurin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082141268X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821412688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.26w x 1.00d","brand":"Susan Schoenbauer Thurin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059874132223,"sku":"9780821412688","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_24993712-fbc1-43e9-a4d2-27d48e27e398.jpg?v=1685060822","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/victorian-travelers-and-the-opening-susan-schoenbauer-thurin-9780821412688","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}