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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Focusing exclusively on premodern travel literature written in classical Chinese, Hargett (Univ. at Albany, SUNY) adroitly traces the development of this literary genre in China from the Six Dynasties through the late Ming. . . . Readers will enjoy the fine balance between the author’s analysis and his translation of excerpts from representative travel essays. . . . Highly recommended."
* Choice *
"This long-awaited, first book-length literary history of imperial Chinese travel prose in English is an impeccably researched guide to the Chinese literature of “movement across the planet’s surface.” Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools is eminently readable, with little exoteric or specialist vocabulary. While written primarily for those interested in China studies, it is certainly accessible to the general reader or to the enthusiast of Western travel literature."
* Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews *
"This book will be welcomed by specialists and should be mandatory reading in a variety of disciplines. Its accessibility will also make it useful in the classroom for teachers at the undergraduate and graduate levels. As the culmination of a sinological career devoted to the translation and study of travel writing, Jade Mountains & Cinnabar Pools is an invaluable contribution to students and scholars in an array offields."
* Journal of Asian Studies *
"Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools succeeds in sweeping the armchair traveler along on a journey through both time and space, along a river journey with Fan Chengda and Lu You, and even beyond the confines of China with Faxian and Xuanzang, to landscapes and travel accounts heretofore unexplored."
* Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) *
"Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools offers the first book-length, comprehensive genre study and history of Chinese youji游記, or travel literature in English language."
* Monumenta Serica *
"[P]rovides a refreshing analysis of the fledgling field of studies in Chinese travel literature."
* IIAS Newsletter (International Institute for Asian Studies) *
