Mountains and Waters of China: Anhui Volume

Author: Duan Baolin, Jiang Rong
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Chinese Landscape, Landscape of China. With a grand collection of twenty volumes, featuring exquisite illustrations and elegant prose. It takes you into a — Historical China, Humanistic China; lets you — sit and enjoy the landscape, read and travel the world. As the saying goes, "The benevolent love mountains, the wise love water," and it is also said, "Mountains and waters have their own clear music." The Chinese people's affinity for mountains and waters 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, and local customs of each province and region. Each volume is accompanied by nearly 200 illustrations, with elegant prose and exquisite artwork. It distinguishes itself from the currently popular tourism guides that focus on information and academic works that study history and culture, offering readers a deep cultural experience and a smooth narrative style. Through reading, they can savor the essence of "traveling" 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 humanities and literature editor. He is currently a senior editor. He has reviewed nearly 100 academic works, including the Serious Series of Aesthetic Studies in Literature and Art (30 volumes). He has also been responsible for the national key book projects "The Grand View of Chinese Culture Series" under the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" and "Ninth Five-Year Plan."
It is precisely to help readers gain more spiritual wealth during their travels that this series combines landscape aesthetics, legends and anecdotes, 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.