Around the same time that Revolution in Poetic Language was published in France by Seuil, des femmes, a feminist publishing enterprise, released Kristeva's diaristic account of her travels in China in 1974: Des Chinoises. Its intensely personal response to the Chinese cultural revolution represents the underside to the dispassionate accounts of subjectivity presented in her doctoral thesis. Kristeva had travelled to China with Roland Barthes, Philippe Sollers, Marcelin Pleynet, and François Wahl, and represented herself on the first evening the party arrived in Peking as "an eternal stranger ... Ill at ease in a group of men. Neither Asian nor European, unrecognized by the women and detached from the men." (ACW: 1578) Even while later wishing to distance herself from some of the naive and ethnocentric shortcomings of her Chinese travelogue, Kristeva nevertheless here offers the reader a more familial subject of enunciation.