Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial ChinaFirst hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places. In Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools, the first book length treatment in English of Chinese travel literature (youji), James M. Hargett identifies and examines core works in the genre, from the Six Dynasties period (220 581), when its essential characteristics emerged, to its florescence in the late Ming dynasty (1368 1644). He