Abstract
Book Review: Giray Fidan. Chinese Witness of the Young Turk Revolution: Kang Youwei's Turk Travelogue. Translated by Giray Fidan. New York: Kopernik Inc., 2019.
Highlights
Fidan is a professor of Chinese Translation and Interpretation at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University in Ankara, where he specializes in Chinese perceptions of the Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey
The book begins with a brief introduction by Fidan, in which he addresses Kang Youwei as an outstanding scholars, statesmen, and political reformer, who advocated for a utopian society
The author provides readers with ample notes and citations throughout the text; he makes no attempt— apart from the introduction—to commentate or interpose his interpretation of Kang’s writing. Kang opens his travelogue with two prefaces: the first of which centers on the deterioration of the Turkish Empire and the circumstances under which the empire began to wane
Summary
Fidan’s one hundred twenty-page long text includes a three-page bibliography, a five-page glossary, and seventeen pages displaying thirty-three of Kang’s postcards documenting his stay in Turkey. Chinese Witness of the Young Turk Revolution: Kang Youwei's Turk Travelogue. Giray Fidan’s translation of Kang Youwei’s travel book through Turkey, Chinese Witness of the Young Turk Revolution, is the first full-length, English language translation of Kang’s Travelogue, offering readers a unique glimpse at Chinese perceptions of the social and political circumstances in Turkey following the Young Turk Revolution.
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