The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory

Isabella Bird

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 June 2010
Pages
584
ISBN
9781108013895

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory

Isabella Bird

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, first published in 1899, contains the account by the redoubtable Isabella Bird (now Mrs J. F. Bishop) of a journey through central China in 1896-1897. The volume focuses on her travels though the province of Szechuan and among the Man-tze of the Somo territory. Many of the areas she explored and carefully described were almost unknown to European visitors and had not been mentioned in any earlier English publications. The volume is based on journal letters and the diary written during her journey, and it is generously illustrated with photographs and Chinese drawings. Bishop’s work was warmly received in England and praised especially for the information included on agriculture and industry. The Geographical Journal heralded the work as ‘undoubtedly one of the most important contributions to English literature on that country’. It remains a key source for late nineteenth-century British perceptions of China.

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