The Cultural Significance Of Travel

According to "China Traveler"(1927-1949), this paper proposes to study the special cultural significance of the new travel business, under the particular context in modern China. It mainly divided into the following three areas:In the "China Traveler", to definite what is traveling and to discuss the meaning of traveling is closely related to all the imagination of the modern nation-state from the intellectuals; and China's domestic travels published in the magazine have covered the vast majority of land. These "recorded landscape" also have shown a desire to reshape national culture.The first part of this article is to inspect the travel as a medium for such a modern nation-state of imagination.Travel is a process encountering with "the other" constantly. Modern travels have faithfully recorded the changes in the thoughts of intellectuals."China Traveler", as the advocate of business travel industry, has contained foreign travels, accounting for one third of the total number of travels; but the narrative mode is different from the kind of modern anxiety, showing characteristics that suit both refined and popular tastes. The second part, what I discuss is the way of displaying the image of the foreign countries and different narrative modes of travels.Travel becomes another topic about modern city life just like watching movie and drinking coffee."China Traveler" this publication provides a "spiritual travel" approach, will connect the travel with the way of reading as urban people's life. Thus, the travel has shown its entertainment features as a modern consumer. The third part focuses on the travel as a lifestyle, and study the novel in "China Traveler", from which can investigate the meaning of combination of travel and reading.Travel leads to the changes of the traditional view of the world and the formation of the modern nation, and even become an important aspect of modern life because of its imagination and the world depicted on the city.