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Discussion

In her second travelogue, "From the Land of Rice and Opium"(1936), the Ukrainian traveler, writer, camerawomen and photographer Sofia Yablonska described her journey from Tonkin to Yunnan after several years of living in this region. Instead of the adventurous and affective writing that readers expected, the author offered a text full of descriptions and reflections, in which the landscape plays a specific anthropological role. The landscape, which is part of the space endowed with meaning and able to generate a narrative, becomes not only a theme and a poetic technique, but also an incentive for reflection, for understanding the way and meaning of life within the framework of cultural tradition. Getting rid of westsplaining and "tourist romanticism", the author comes to find out her own cultural belonging, which is manifested, in particular, in interest, emotion, admiration and understanding.