Writing Travel
Series Editor, Jeanne Moskal
The series publishes manuscripts related to the new field of travel studies, including works of original travel writing; editions of out-of-print travel books or previously unpublished travel memoirs; English translations of important travel books in other languages; theoretical and historical treatments of ways in which travel and travel writing engage such questions as religion, nationalism/cosmopolitanism, and empire; gender and sexuality; race, ethnicity, and immigration; and the history of the book, print culture, and translation; biographies of significant travelers or groups of travelers (including but not limited to pilgrims, missionaries, anthropologists, tourists, explorers, immigrants); critical studies of the works of significant travelers or groups of travelers; and pedagogy of travel and travel literature and its place in curricula.
Other Books in the Series
Vienna Voices: A Traveler Listens to the City of Dreams, Jill Knight Weinberger
Eating Europe: A Meta-Nonfiction Love Story, Jon Volkmer
Sarah Heckford: A Lady Trader in the Transvaal, ed. by Carole G. Silver
Au Japon
The Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent in Japan, Korea, and China, 1892–1894
Amédée Baillot de Guerville
Translated, Annotated, and with an Introduction
by Daniel C. Kane
Parlor Press
Anderson, South Carolina
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Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, 29621, USA
© 2009 by Parlor Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Guerville, A. B. de (Amédée Baillot de), b. 1869.
[Au Japon. English]
Au Japon : the memoirs of a foreign correspondent in Japan, Korea, and China, 1892-1894 / Amedee Baillot de Guerville ; translated, annotated, and with an introduction by Daniel C. Kane.
p. cm. -- (Writing travel)
Translation of Au Japon, originally published: Paris : Lemerre, 1904.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60235-128-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-129-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-130-1 (adobe ebook)
1. Japan--Description and travel. 2. Japan--Social life and customs--1868-1912. 3. Korea--Description and travel. 4. China--Description and travel. 5. Guerville, A. B. de (Amédée Baillot de), b. 1869--Travel--Japan. 6. Guerville, A. B. de (Amédée Baillot de), b. 1869--Travel--Korea. 7. Guerville, A. B. de (Amédée Baillot de), b. 1869--Travel--China. 8. Foreign correspondents--United States--Biography. 9. Travel writers--United States--Biography. 10. French Americans--Biography. I. Kane, Daniel C. II. Title.
DS809.G87 2009
952.03’1--dc22
2009032568
Cover design by David Blakesley.
Printed on acid-free paper.
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Contents
Introduction: Amédée Baillot de Guerville and Au Japon
12 The Real Madame Chrysanthemum
13 A Visit with His Excellency, the Governor of O . . .
About the Translator
Illustrations