A Journey to the East: Li GUI's a New Account of a Trip Around the Globe

by Charles A. Desnoyers and Li Gui

Li Gui's record of his epic 1876 journey marks China's first officially sanctioned eyewitness account of people and places around the world.

A representative to the U.S. Centennial in Philadelphia, Li Gui went on to style himself as the first Chinese official to circle the globe, and his travel diary offers a revealing window into the Chinese view of the West in the late nineteenth century. As the first full-length English translation of this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472113542
• ISBN13: 9780472113545
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.5"