Home > Authors > Susan Schoenbauer Thurin > Victorian travelers and the opening of China, 1842-1907

Victorian travelers and the opening of China, 1842-1907

Susan Schoenbauer Thurin

Three 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 travel records and novels became a significant source of many of the West's impressions of that far-off land. All of the writers had a degree of contemporary importance or fame and represented different views that lent significance to their writing about China. Robert Fortune, a horticulturalist, and Archibald Little, a merchant, represent travel and the business of empire. Constance Gordon Cumming, Henry Knollys, and Isabella Bird Bishop were adventure travelers. Alicia Little, wife and novelist, helpmeet and humanitarian, was a woman of empire. Susan Schoenbauer Thurin's study of these writings presents a rich tapestry of impressions, biases, and cultural...

See on goodreads | librarything

Recent activity

Rate this book to see your activity here.

4 Books Similar to Victorian travelers and the opening of China, 1842-1907 by Susan Schoenbauer Thurin

Bookscovery readers who liked Victorian travelers and the opening of China, 1842-1907 also like Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 1, Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 2 and Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 3. How many of these have you read?