Through the Yang-Tse Gorges : Or, Trade and Travel in Western China
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1108013848
ISBN-13
9781108013840
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 31st, 2010
Print length
396 Pages
Weight
532 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 21.70 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Asian historyModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900HistoryAsian history
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Published in London in 1888, this is Little's travel journal from Shanghai to Chongqing in 1883, in which he advocates for the use of steamships on the upper Yangtze River. Little became the first Westerner successfully to navigate the upper Yangtze River by steamship from Yichang to Chongqing in 1898.
Through the Yang-tse Gorges is Archibald Little's diary (published in London in 1888) of his journey up the Yangtze River from Shanghai to Chongqing by a native junk boat in 1883. Little strongly advocated the introduction of steam travel on the upper part of the river between Yichang and Chongqing, a port open to Western trade. The upper Yangtze was full of gorges and rapids which made travel treacherous; Little's journey by junk boat took a month, whereas the journey by steamship would have taken only 36 hours. He was repeatedly rebuffed in his attempts to introduce steam travel to the upper Yangtze by the Chinese government, which he accused of standing in the way of modernisation. He successfully introduced a steamship on the upper Yangtze river in 1898. Several other books by Little and by his intrepid wife are also reissued in this series.
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