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Yangzhou, a Place in Literature: The Local in Chinese Cultural History
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Altenburger, Roland; Wan, Margaret B.; Bdegreerdahl, Vibeke. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 839.
One of the famous canal cities of the world and a former center of culture, trade, transportation, and fashion, the old town of Yangzhou evokes romantic bridges, beautiful courtesans, fine gardens, and eccentric painters. It is also remembered as a war-torn ruin aft er the Qing conquest and the Taiping Rebellion, and as a city in decline as trade shift ed to seaports and railways. Yangzhou, A Place in Literature, the first anthology to center on a Chinese city and its local region, offers a wealth of literary, semi-literary, and oral texts representing social life over three hundred years of ... Read more
One of the famous canal cities of the world and a former center of culture, trade, transportation, and fashion, the old town of Yangzhou evokes romantic bridges, beautiful courtesans, fine gardens, and eccentric painters. It is also remembered as a war-torn ruin aft er the Qing conquest and the Taiping Rebellion, and as a city in decline as trade shift ed to seaports and railways. Yangzhou, A Place in Literature, the first anthology to center on a Chinese city and its local region, offers a wealth of literary, semi-literary, and oral texts representing social life over three hundred years of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
568
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824839888
SKU
V9780824839888
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Ref
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About
Roland Altenburger is professor of East Asian cultural history at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Margaret B. Wan is associate professor of Chinese literature at the University of Utah, USA. Vibeke Bordahl is senior researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen University, Denmark.
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