Download or read book Traditions of East Asian Travel written by Joshua A. Fogel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the topic of travel and travel writing by Chinese and Japanese writers has recently begun to attract more interest among scholars in the West, it remains largely virgin terrain with vast tracts awaiting scholarly examination. This book offers insights into how East Asians traveled in the early modern and modern periods, what they looked for, what they felt comfortable finding, and the ways in which they wrote up their impressions of these experiences.