博士 / 國立臺灣大學 / 歷史學研究所 / 105 / This dissertation is a study of the development of overseas travel culture from the last years of the dynasty to the early years of the Republic. By Looking at late Qing officials, intellectuals and Republican elites journeys to the world, this study explores how travel account and travel business contribute to many changes and continued exprieences on travel abroad and its understanding.
According to Tianjin Treaty after the Second Opium War, foreigners were allowed to travel inland with passport. There was a lot of dispute and crisis about foreigners’ travel account, including their investigatinon and adventure for business, military, or missionary purpose. Qing officials began to realize the significance of overseas traveling to gather foreign information. With the beginning of Self-Strengthening Movement, Qing officials involved in the management of foreign affiairs began to travel abroad on diplomat missions, the Chinese elites bagan to look anew at China’s position in the world and the general trend of countries in European, American, and Japan. From 1860’s to the early twentieth century, Qing diplomats, exiled reformers, and the other bureaucrats and gentlemen, their travel writing provide a lot of new experiences about attitude of overseas traveling, spatial mobility discourses, and the knowledge that must be known before starting to abroad. This dissertation will examine the transitional and constructional processes of overseas traveling consciousness.
During the Republic, the development of the China Travel Service, the first and largest travel agency owned and run by Chinese, commercial travel writing occupied an important place in this era. This dissertation will discuss how China Travel Service provide many overesas travel records, reports and knowledge in their agency magazine—China Traveller, it endeavored to develop and change different expriences for traveling abroad. By establishing consciousness and knowledge of travel service, common sense and guide information, CTS and its publication helped Chinese urban readers to develop concrete ideas and experiences of overseas, including convenience of transportation, facilities for visitors, and go abroad for vacation. These ideas and experiences was rare for Qing elites. Furthermore, from late Qing to Republic era, the promotion of overseas travel and its destination still being given a role to make Chinese know various foreign knowledge and information, such as history, custom, modern city culture , international relationhip, and so on.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/105NTU05493011 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Mingchun Tsai, 蔡明純 |
| Contributors | 古偉瀛 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 252 |
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