Chapter 3: China in the Eyes of Western Travelers, 1860-1900.

In this chapter, the author takes back in time more than a century to examine how international tourists from the West viewed China at that time. Interesting corollaries with modern tourists show how some aspects of the human travel experience transcend time and space. The author uses considerable research that has been conducted on Western travel and travel writing in different countries during the colonial era. The right to travel was guaranteed by treaties, which proved to be the most important factor in determining routes of travel in China in the late 1800s.