Outline Syllabus
- Tang: Medieval travel and the Silk roads (Xuanzang, Rubruck)
- Song: Explorations in South-east Asia (Zhao Rugua, Zhou Daguan)
- Ming: Travelling within the Ming empire (Xu Xiake and Gaspar da Cruz)
- Qing: Christianity and the Jesuit accounts of China (Matteo Ricci, Du Halde, Le Comte)
- Republican Era: Travel at the turn of the century (Shan Shili and Hu Shi)
- reading week
- Travel and gender
- Travel and Science: explorations by Li Shizhen and Robert Fortune
- Race and the colonial gaze
- Attempts at diplomacy (Nieuhof, Macartney, Van Braam Houckgeest)
