Miscellany of the South Seas : a Chinese scholar's chronicle of shipwreck and travel through 1830s Vietnam /

Miscellany of the South Seas : a Chinese scholar's chronicle of shipwreck and travel through 1830s Vietnam /

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Author / Creator:	Cai, Tinglan, 1801-1859, author.
Imprint:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2023] ©2023
Description:	177 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Cai, Tinglan, -- 1801-1859 -- Travel -- Vietnam. Vietnam -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13347154

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Other authors / contributors:	Baldanza, Kathlene, translator, writer of introduction. Zhao, Lu, translator, writer of introduction.
ISBN:	0295751673 9780295751672 9780295751689 0295751681
Notes:	Includes bibliographic references (pages 161-168) and index
Summary:	In 1835 young Chinese scholar Cai Tinglan was caught in a typhoon while sailing across the Taiwan Strait. He and his shipmates spent a harrowing week at sea before drifting to the coast of central Vietnam. With an escort of Vietnamese soldiers, Cai traveled north along the famous "Mandarin Road," meeting governors-general of each province he passed through along his overland journey to Fujian Province in China. Cai documented his experiences in Miscellany of the South Seas (Hainan zazhu), a vivid account of clothing, food, religious practices, government affairs, and other aspects of daily life in early Nguyễn dynasty Vietnam. Cai's encounters with diasporic Chinese show the Hokkien merchant community's penetration into Vietnamese society, while his warm embrace by Nguyễn officials illustrates a shared elite world of classical culture across international borders. In this first English translation, Kathlene Baldanza and Zhao Lu provide a comprehensive introduction that puts Cai's account in social, political, and economic context, along with extensive annotation and a glossary.

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Call Number:	DS556.36.C35 2023
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