ABSTRACT
This chapter examines gender identity and its consequences for how Western travel writers represent Mongolians and other non-Europeans. In short, this chapter asks the following: Do women represent Mongolians and Mongolia differently than men? By focusing on Beatrix Bulstrode’s biography, her role as an international club woman committed to Asian causes, and her journalistic strategies, I argue that Bulstrode’s travel writing allows her opportunities to enter public discourse and to reflect on the gendered expectations of British expatriate life in China, her own gender as a traveler, the ways in which non-Europeans view her, the lives of Mongolian and Chinese women, and her own metropolitan audiences.
