- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Sources
- Introduction
- I. Visionary Journeys
- Prologue
- 1. Seeing with the Mind’s Eye
- 2. Journeys to Other Worlds
- 3. Xie Lingyun, Poet of Purgatory
- Coda
- Interlude
- II. Encountering the World
- Prologue
- 4. The Rhetorical Schemata of Seeing
- 5. Poetry and Experience in the Nineteenth Century
- Afterword
- Appendixes
- 1. Translation of Xie Lingyun’s “Fu on My Journey” (“Zhuanzheng fu”)
- 2. Translation of the Story of Shi Changhe
- Reference Matter
- Bibliography
- Index
HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE MONOGRAPH SERIES
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 78
Visionary Journeys
Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China
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Publication Date: 01/02/2012
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