Au Japon. Amedee Baillot de Guerville

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Название Au Japon
Автор произведения Amedee Baillot de Guerville
Жанр Биографии и Мемуары
Серия Writing Travel
Издательство Биографии и Мемуары
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9781602356818



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      Writing Travel

      Series Editor, Jeanne Moskal

      The series publishes manuscripts related to the new field of travel studies, including works of original travel writing; editions of out-of-print travel books or previously unpublished travel memoirs; English translations of important travel books in other languages; theoretical and historical treatments of ways in which travel and travel writing engage such questions as religion, nationalism/cosmopolitanism, and empire; gender and sexuality; race, ethnicity, and immigration; and the history of the book, print culture, and translation; biographies of significant travelers or groups of travelers (including but not limited to pilgrims, missionaries, anthropologists, tourists, explorers, immigrants); critical studies of the works of significant travelers or groups of travelers; and pedagogy of travel and travel literature and its place in curricula.

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      Sarah Heckford: A Lady Trader in the Transvaal, ed. by Carole G. Silver

      Au Japon

      The Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent in Japan, Korea, and China, 1892–1894

      Amédée Baillot de Guerville

      Translated, Annotated, and with an Introduction

      by Daniel C. Kane

      Parlor Press

      Anderson, South Carolina

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      Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, 29621, USA

      © 2009 by Parlor Press

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      Printed in the United States of America

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Guerville, A. B. de (Amédée Baillot de), b. 1869.

      [Au Japon. English]

      Au Japon : the memoirs of a foreign correspondent in Japan, Korea, and China, 1892-1894 / Amedee Baillot de Guerville ; translated, annotated, and with an introduction by Daniel C. Kane.

      p. cm. -- (Writing travel)

      Translation of Au Japon, originally published: Paris : Lemerre, 1904.

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-1-60235-128-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-129-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-130-1 (adobe ebook)

      1. Japan--Description and travel. 2. Japan--Social life and customs--1868-1912. 3. Korea--Description and travel. 4. China--Description and travel. 5. Guerville, A. B. de (Amédée Baillot de), b. 1869--Travel--Japan. 6. Guerville, A. B. de (Amédée Baillot de), b. 1869--Travel--Korea. 7. Guerville, A. B. de (Amédée Baillot de), b. 1869--Travel--China. 8. Foreign correspondents--United States--Biography. 9. Travel writers--United States--Biography. 10. French Americans--Biography. I. Kane, Daniel C. II. Title.

      DS809.G87 2009

      952.03’1--dc22

      2009032568

      Cover design by David Blakesley.

      Printed on acid-free paper.

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      Contents

       Introduction: Amédée Baillot de Guerville and Au Japon

       Note on the Translation

       Author’s Preface to Au Japon

       1 To Japan

       2 The Ambassador’s Wife

       3 Teikoku

       4 A Tokyo “Five O’Clock”

       5 The Yoshiwara

       6 A Socialite

       7 Tokyo

       8 A Few Silhouettes

       9 Their Women

       10 Their Children

       11 At the Imperial Court

       12 The Real Madame Chrysanthemum

       13 A Visit with His Excellency, the Governor of O . . .

       14 The Missionary

       15 From Tokyo to Tientsin

       16 Ayama

       17 Marshal Yamagata

       18 The Red Cross

       19 The Spy

       20 The Eggs

       21 Chiu-Ji

       22 Port Arthur

       Appendix A

       Appendix B

       Au Japon Notes

      About the Translator

       Index

      Illustrations