Cai Tinglan: Miscellany of the South Seas
Miscellany of the South Seas
Buch
- A Chinese Scholar's Chronicle of Shipwreck and Travel Through 1830s Vietnam
- Übersetzung: Kathlene Baldanza, Zhao Lu
- University of Washington Press, 07/2023
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780295751672
- Bestellnummer: 11083939
- Umfang: 190 Seiten
- Gewicht: 245 g
- Maße: 216 x 140 mm
- Stärke: 11 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 7.7.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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A riveting tale of danger, adventure, and connectionIn 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 Nguy n dynasty Vietnam.
Cai's encounters with diasporic Chinese show the Hokkien merchant community's penetration into Vietnamese society, while his warm embrace by Nguy n 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.