《钱谦益与《游黄山记》》内容简介

　　古代文人追求“读万卷书，行万里路”。可文人记录旅行的文本——游记，却一直被研究者所忽视。历代的游历者、纷繁复杂的视觉材料与文学传统，既塑造出象征意义的文化景象，又创造一种精神上的游历空间。本书讲述——

　　晚明对奢侈品的炫耀性消费，与游记的盛行有何种关联；

　　六十岁的钱谦益为何踏上他的黄山之旅，而他在攀登黄山的途中，又在思考些什么；

　　文化、历史和宗教如何在黄山上沉淀，使它从人迹罕至之地，演变成著名的风景；

　　有关黄山的诗歌、山水画、木刻版画、游记，如何使它成为一种文化的空间；

　　古代文人怎样感悟风景，怎样与前人在风景中对话交流，又怎样如朝圣者一般穿行在精神的空间中。

　　本书是对17世纪中国旅行写作实践的细致考察，作者创新的理论立场，结合细致的文本研究，对中国传统游记体裁进行了一次全新解读。在本书中，作者以著名诗人、官员和文学史学家钱谦益的《黄山游记》为研究重点，与其他传统学者对游记的解读不同，他将钱谦益游记中的风景解读为一种代表性传统的复杂产物，而不是一种可实证的空间。

　　本书取材广泛，引证资料包括个人轶事、传统宇宙学资料、地方志、道家经典、绘画和木版画等，在纷繁复杂的古典文献中探索了明末江南的迷人世界。作者在书中突出说明：钱谦益对黄山的描述，与其说是他的第一手观察，不如说是他之前几代旅行者留下的层层意义。本书可作为相关学者或学生研究晚明历史和文学的必要参考，也可为任何对旅游写作、人文地理、旅游社会学或艺术和视觉文化感兴趣的人提供了新视角。

　　作者简介

　　史蒂芬·麦克道尔（StephenMcDowall），中文名“马蒂文”，毕业于新西兰惠灵顿维多利亚大学（VictoriaUniversityofWellington）中文系，获博士学位，现任英国华威大学（UniversityofWarwick）历史系研究员。他的研究兴趣包括明代物质与视觉文化、旅游写作、比较文学、西方想象中的中国以及近代早期世界的全球联系。

　　

"Qian Qianyi and" Travel to Huangshan "content introduction

The ancient literati pursued "reading 10,000 books and traveling 10,000 miles". However, travelogues, the text of literati recording travel, have been ignored by researchers. The travelers, the complicated visual materials and the literary tradition of the past generations not only shape the cultural scene of symbolic significance, but also create a spiritual travel space. This book is about --

What is the relationship between the conspicuous consumption of luxury goods in the late Ming Dynasty and the popularity of travel notes?

Why the 60-year-old Qian Qianyi embarked on his trip to Huangshan, and what he was thinking about on the way to climb Huangshan;

How culture, history, and religion have settled on Huangshan, transforming it from a place off the beaten track to a scenic spot;

About Huangshan poetry, landscape painting, woodcut prints, travel notes, how to make it become a cultural space;

How did the ancient literati perceive the landscape, how did they communicate with their predecessors in the landscape, and how did they walk through the spiritual space like pilgrims?

This book is a detailed survey of the practice of travel writing in 17th century China. The author's innovative theoretical position, combined with careful textual research, gives a new interpretation of the traditional Chinese travel writing genre. In this book, the author focuses on Qian Qianyi's Journey to Huangshan, a famous poet, official, and literary historian. Unlike other traditional scholars, he interprets the landscape in Qian Qianyi's journey as a complex product of representative tradition, rather than an empirical space.

Based on a wide range of sources, including personal anecdotes, traditional cosmology, local Chronicles, Taoist classics, paintings, and woodcuts, this book explores the fascinating world of Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty through a complex collection of classical documents. In the book, the author highlights that Qian Qianyi's description of Huangshan is not so much his first-hand observation as the layers of meaning left by generations of travelers before him. This book serves as an essential reference for scholars or students studying the history and literature of the late Ming Dynasty, as well as a new perspective for anyone interested in travel writing, human geography, tourism sociology, or art and visual culture.

About the author

Stephen McDowell (StephenMcDowall), the Chinese name "Ma Diwen", graduated from Victoria university of Wellington, New Zealand (VictoriaUniversityofWellington) in Chinese literature, PhD, He is currently a research fellow in the Department of History at the UniversityofWarwick. His research interests include Ming material and visual culture, travel writing, comparative literature, China in the Western imagination, and the global connections of the early modern world.