Xu Xiake's Travel Notes

About This Novel

Xu Xiake, a traveler, writer, and geographer in the late Ming Dynasty, gave up his scientific career and devoted his life to exploring famous mountains and rivers and inspecting geographical features. His footprints spanned most of China, and he meticulously recorded what he saw, heard, and felt along the way, which became "Xu Xiake's Travels." This is a grand work with literary, historical and geographical value, with more than 600,000 words in existence. The annotator, Liu Huru, based on the principle of "appreciation and textual research", selected the articles that Xu Xiake wrote in his early travels that described the scenery in detail and thus aroused readers' interest, and the articles that Xu Xiake wrote during his later travels that focused on textual research and therefore had geographical value. On this basis, he refined and annotated the works. The annotations in the anthology are rich in content, focusing not only on the interpretation of the pronunciation and meaning of the words, but also on the detailed explanation of the anecdotes of the characters, with many quotations. At the same time, it is accompanied by a "Preface" written by Liu Huru, which introduces Xu Xiake's life and family in detail, analyzes his geographical discoveries, and lists the catalog of Xu Xiake's works, which is helpful for readers to read the book and study Xu Xiake. This new edition inherits the selection, consults relevant literature, revise the original text and annotations, and analyzes the characteristics of "Xu Xiake's Travels" in literature, geography and other aspects in the "Introduction to the New Edition", hoping to be helpful to readers in reading this book.

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