Abstract
While numerous nineteenth-century French travelers penned accounts of their experiences in Asia, Laure Durand-Fardel (1817–87) stands out as the first middle-class French woman to publish her impressions of China and Japan. In letters written to family members during her seven-month trip, Durand-Fardel shared candid reactions to the people she encountered and the places she discovered. An inquisitive traveler, she ventured into seldomexplored settings and pushed past spatial and cultural boundaries to unveil new information about domestic life, gender roles, and social customs in China and Japan.
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