A Superficial Journey is the result of a year spent in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Peking. "A kind of travel film, a sequence in which image suggests image," it describes, in vivid Quennell's vivid prose, Kabuki actors, Tokyo's Joy Quarter, the tomb-ridden vistas of North China, and the political gossip of Peking in the 1930s.
- ISBN10 0195840992
- ISBN13 9780195840995
- Publish Date December 1986
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 June 2010
- Publish Country CN
- Imprint Oxford University Press (China) Ltd
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 234
- Language English