Shan Shui China (Anhui Volume)

Author: Duan Baolin, Jiang Rong
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Publishing Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Chinese Landscape, Landscape of China. With a grand collection of twenty volumes, featuring exquisite illustrations and vivid literary style. It takes you into a — Historical China, Humanistic China; lets you — sit and enjoy the landscape, read and explore the world. As the saying goes, "A benevolent person delights in mountains, and a wise person delights in water," and it is also said, "Mountains and waters possess their own clear sounds." The Chinese people's affinity for landscapes has deep roots. Peking University Press plans to publish a twenty-volume illustrated series titled "Landscape of China," providing a panoramic scan of the natural scenery, historical sites, customs, and cultures of various provinces and regions. Each volume is accompanied by nearly 200 illustrations, with a rich literary style and exquisite artwork. It distinguishes itself from the current popular travel guides that focus on information and academic works that study history and culture, allowing readers to savor the essence of "traveling" while reading and fully appreciate the splendid beauty of China. The first six volumes—Beijing (volumes 1 and 2), Ningxia, Tibet, Zhejiang, Shaanxi, and Henan—were published in January 2005.
The series is edited by Duan Baolin, a retired professor of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University. He has authored or compiled over ten works, including An Overview of Chinese Folk Literature, Chinese Folk Literature Studies, The Comic Art of Jokes, The Law of Elegance and Popularity in Literature, and A Dictionary of Folk Literature. Jiang Rong graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University in 1970 and joined the department as a teacher. In 1980, he was transferred to Peking University Press as a literary and historical editor and is currently a senior editor. He has reviewed nearly a hundred academic works, including the Serious of Aesthetic Literature, comprising thirty volumes. He has also been responsible for the national "Eighth Five-Year Plan" and "Ninth Five-Year Plan" key book projects, The Grand View of Chinese Culture.
It is precisely to help readers gain more spiritual wealth during their travels that this series blends landscape aesthetics, anecdotes and legends, landscape literature, and local customs, offering everyone a "comprehensive collection of landscape stories." The fact that this series has come into being in its current form is the result of the joint efforts of many colleagues and friends.