Study Of The Overseas Travel Notes In Late Qing Dynasty

Because of the lost of Opium War the Qing government gradually changed the Closing-door Diplomatic Policies and carry out opening-up policy. They wrote large quantities of Overseas Travel Notes which recorded and narrate history and geography, culture and art, habit and custom, politics and economy, science and education, landscape and showplaces of foreign countries. On account of many reasons, the attention to the overseas travel notes is inadequate and the study of them is quite deficient. Basing on the previous study in academic circles, this text observes and studies on the overseas travel notes which mainly include Occidental travel notes and Asian travel notes in late Qing Dynasty comprehensively card the producing and developing process of them, generalize and analyze the contents and artistic characteristics of them, point out the difference between Occidental travel notes and Asian travel notes as well as the position and influence of the overseas travel notes in late Qing Dynasty.