Mountains and Waters of China: Suzhou and Shanghai Volume 1

Author: Duan Baolin, Jiang Rong (editors)
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Publishing Date: 2006-01-01
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 — observe landscapes, read and travel the world. This series of books has two key concepts: "Landscape Stories" and "Landscape Sentiment." The rich and diverse "stories" behind the mountains and waters are the main characteristics of Chinese landscapes. Due to the long-standing civilization and historical heritage, as well as the long-term influence of agricultural life, the "stories" behind China's landscapes are particularly abundant, meaning that the cultural landscapes are especially rich, and the accumulation of historical culture is particularly profound. This series blends landscape aesthetics, anecdotes and legends, literary works on mountains and waters, and local customs into one, presenting everyone with a "comprehensive collection of landscape stories."
Landscape sentiment is a special cultural mindset formed by China's ancestors in the long-term agricultural society. The publication of this series in its current form is the result of the joint efforts of many colleagues and friends. Especially Mr. Luo Zhewen, who traveled across the mountains to protect cultural heritage, and the renowned photographers Gu Di, Li Yuxiang, Wu Yinnan, and Li Xiangde, who provided a wealth of photographs of cultural relics, historical sites, and landscape art, adding a rich classical poetic charm to the series.
As one volume of the "Landscape of China" illustrated series, this book provides a panoramic scan of Shanghai's scenic spots, historical sites, legends and anecdotes, and local customs, accompanied by nearly 200 illustrations. With a profound and substantial cultural connotation and an elegant and fluent narrative style, it distinguishes itself from the currently popular tourism guides that focus on information and purely academic works that study history and culture. It allows readers to savor the essence of "traveling through reading." It meets market demand and has a broad readership.