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Through the Yang-tse Gorges: Or, Trade and Travel in Western China.

Through the Yang-tse Gorges: Or, Trade and Travel in Western China.

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電子版あり 大学・学術機関向け電子ブック(eBook)ISBN 9780511709180
著者・編者Little, Archibald John,
シリーズ (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia)
出版社 (Cambridge University Press, UK)
出版年月2010
ページ数396 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A03-16160>

解説

Through the Yang-tse Gorges is Archibald Little's diary (published in London in 1888) of his journey up the Yangtze River from Shanghai to Chongqing by a native junk boat in 1883. Little strongly advocated the introduction of steam travel on the upper part of the river between Yichang and Chongqing, a port open to Western trade. The upper Yangtze was full of gorges and rapids which made travel treacherous; Little's journey by junk boat took a month, whereas the journey by steamship would have taken only 36 hours. He was repeatedly rebuffed in his attempts to introduce steam travel to the upper Yangtze by the Chinese government, which he accused of standing in the way of modernisation. He successfully introduced a steamship on the upper Yangtze river in 1898. Several other books by Little and by his intrepid wife are also reissued in this series.