Sustainable Development Goals
Abstract/Objectives
The physical long-distance movement of people and objects has undergone long-term changes and accumulation. Understanding the world from the perspective of "movement" through "travel history" will help us understand the current situation, and grasp the future. The course is based on East Asian culture and focuses on "modern times". The content covers several levels including travelers, travel activities, travel writing, and travel concepts. That is, starting from traditional China and expanding to Japan, its close neighbor in East Asia, to understand the world stage and travel activities before modern times. It also pays attention to the changes in the methods and goals of grand travel since modern times, as well as how communication, adventure, consumption and other elements have created today's world. The course will also arrange observations and discussions on contemporary travel-related activities.
Results/Contributions

This course hopes that students will learn to think and explore from the historical context, and gain a better understanding of the current situation, so to seek more possibilities in the future. The course content covers several levels including travelers, travel activities, travel writing, and travel concepts. Travelers are related to who can move, and travel activities are the essential state of travel; travel writing leads us to observe the abstract gains of travel; and if "travel" is elevated to a compass for analyzing the world, it can also provide the possibility of re-viewing and re-expressing the world.

Therefore, every week in class, the teacher will use the following aspects to explain as completely as possible the travel experience of a certain group of people in a certain period: "Who travels? (Gender/class/occupation/status/nationality/age) Which era background? What is the purpose of the trip? Where to go? What are the challenges?

With the explanation and answers to these questions, students can learn how to grasp the reality of travel, and their imaginative vision of travel becomes broader. In addition to recognizing the personal ideological collision and harvest brought by travel, they can also deeply understand the meaning of travel to different people in different eras.

At the same time, in the reading and understanding of texts, students learn to cultivate their thinking ability, detect the background and context of the writer, and establish their own values ​​and knowledge system. Then they may find a stable context and foundation in the trend of the world and history, and maturely understand oneself and this world full of diversity and difference.

Keywords
Movement, traveler, traveler, travel writing, tourism, communicate, consumption
Contact Information
吳雅婷
wudayy@gmail.com