Travel: Cross-cultural imagination

Author: Guo Shaotang
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: I see travel as a spiritual test, just like great and serious scientific practice. Travel helps us rediscover ourselves. —Albert Camus
Travel culture encompasses travel, distant places, and everything related to it. It is also a historical perspective, a metaphor for the transient nature of human psychology. When humans are observed comprehensively rather than individually, travel becomes a philosophy or metaphysics. —C. T. Williams
This book explores human travel activities from an intercultural perspective. It is divided into seven chapters: Intercultural Interpretation of Travel, Cultural Perspective on Tourism, Conceptual Reflections on Travel, Travel, Cultural Transformation, and Value Change, Interpretation and Literary Imagination of Spiritual Travel, Technological Imagination of Spiritual Travel, and Dreams and Imagination of Spiritual Travel.
Based on a thorough review of a large number of domestic and foreign literature, especially various works and historical materials on travel, this book focuses on discussing the cultural traditions of China and the definition of travel concepts, providing new interpretations in the modern context. It emphasizes the intercultural and interdisciplinary analysis of pre-modern cultural traditions in China and the West. The book is rich in references and offers fresh insights, making it a creative and groundbreaking work.