Tongli - Stroll in the Best Places by Lake and Mountains

Author: Yang Zongxing
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The authors focus on the rural Jiangnan region, meticulously crafting a unique cultural scroll of town life. It should be said that people are not unfamiliar with Jiangnan towns. According to an incomplete statistics from a scholar of town history, nearly 700 academic papers on town history were published domestically between 1980 and 1999, with over 500 on regional town history, of which nearly half were about Jiangnan. However, a closer examination reveals that works centered on culture or approaching town community life from a cultural perspective are relatively rare; especially, the heavy academic tone often makes them inaccessible to general readers. The editors and authors who contributed to this series are not qualified as scholars, so the authors deliberately blend profound theories into accessible language, using vivid writing to interpret elusive life rules and dynamic images to enliven rigid text. In short, they strive to restore the authentic state of cultural existence. There are too many famous towns in Jiangnan, and the first eight to enter our view are Zhouzhuang, Tongli, Dongshan, Lüzhijiang, Shengze, Nanxun, Xitang, and Wuzhen.