Splendor of the Wanjiang River - Humanistic Anhui

Author: Wang Chang'an
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This is a series of cultural books with a perspective of river basins and a thread of rivers. The two important rivers in China, the Yangtze River and the Huai River, run from west to east across Anhui Province, dividing the province into three natural regions: the area north of the Huai River is an endless vast plain with flat and fertile land; the area between the Huai River and the Yangtze River is characterized by rolling hills and crisscrossing rivers and lakes; the southern Anhui region south of the Yangtze River is dominated by towering mountains, with the scenic beauty of Huangshan and Jiuhua Mountains representing the world's most magnificent mountain landscapes. In China, no other province is as culturally diverse as Anhui, where the northern and Jianghuai regions have such significant differences, and no other province combines the rugged grandeur of the north with the elegant subtlety of the south as Anhui does.