Boat:Wuzhen

Author: Zhong Guisong
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The authors focus on the rural Jiangnan region, meticulously crafting a unique scroll of urban culture. It should be said that Jiangnan towns are not unfamiliar to people. 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 regional town history studies, 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 scarce; especially, the heavy academic tone in these works often turns general readers away. The editors and authors who contributed to this series do not even qualify as scholars, so the authors deliberately blend profound theories into accessible language, using vivid writing to depict 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.