{"product_id":"mobility-and-masks-9780674295803","title":"Mobility and Masks","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTravellers have always experimented with disguise while observing the disguises of others. Each of the chapters in \u003cem\u003eMobility and Masks\u003c\/em\u003e illustrates the strategies of concealment in the experience of travel:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA seventeenth-century German aristocrat discovers new freedom as she travels incognito. Jesuits write home from China in the eighteenth century about how costume changes serve their mission. A Chinese opera star reflects on his own masked art during a tour of Russia in 1935.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMasking can be a racial marker, as shown in two nineteenth-century accounts: an English woman encountering the creole culture of the West Indies and a French woman observing how cosmetic beauty is defined in Shanghai.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFictional representations of the masked traveller are illustrative, too: masked voices in the lyric poetry of Horace, the masked woman as an obstacle in classic adventure tales, the failure of cultural masking in the story of a modern immigrant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072308723948,"sku":"9780674295803","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1459913482428.jpg?v=1765093766","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/mobility-and-masks-9780674295803","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}