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One of the famous canal cities of the world and a former center of culture, trade, transportation, and fashion, the old town of Yangzhou evokes romantic bridges, beautiful courtesans, fine gardens, and eccentric painters. It is also remembered as a war-torn ruin aft er the Qing conquest and the Taiping Rebellion, and as a city in decline as trade shift ed to seaports and railways. Yangzhou, A Place in Literature, the first anthology to center on a Chinese city and its local region, offers a wealth of literary, semi-literary, and oral texts representing social life over three hundred years of dramatic change between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. The selections in this volume represent a wide range of literary forms and styles, both elite and popular, with subjects ranging from literature, history, theater, and art to the history of architecture and gardening, and of material culture at large. Readers will come across rarely found details of everyday life, the sights, smells, and sounds of the lanes and teahouses, a world of taverns, pilgrimages, communal baths, fi sh markets, salt merchants, acting troupes, and food in one of the wealthiest cities of imperial China. Each text has an introductory essay and rich textual tes by an expert in the relevant field. The general introduction provides an in-depth discussion of the roles of the local in historical, cultural, literary, and linguistic terms, as mirrored by the wide range of translated sources collected in this volume. The selected texts are historically andintellectually important in their own right, but the volume greatly enhances their collective value by combining them, arranging them in historical sequence, and providing a dense network of cross-references that invite comparisons and reveal contrasts in style, form, focus, and topic. With its compelling accounts of material culture, urban spaces, entertainment, and gender, Yangzhou, A Place in Literature will fascinate scholars and students alike by opening a window to the rich cultural history of Yangzhou. Th e volume can serve as a textbook for courses on traditional and modern Chinese literature, popular culture, the city, or social history. It will be of great interest to scholars of East Asian studies, as well as to those in a variety of comparative fields, such as urban studies, theater studies, and gender studies.Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity Of Hawai'i Press
ISBN-100824839889
ISBN-139780824839888
eBay Product ID (ePID)209383680
Product Key Features
Book TitleYangzhou, a Place in Literature : the Local in Chinese Cultural History
Number of Pages528 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Literary Collections, History
AuthorMargaret B. Wan
FormatHardback
Dimensions
Item Weight30.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Height229mm
Width152mm
Weight839g
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication30/04/2015
SubjectAnthologies
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Place of PublicationHonolulu, Hi
Spine36mm
Country of PublicationUnited States
Edited byMargaret B. Wan, Vibeke Bordahl, Roland Altenburger
Author BiographyRoland Altenburger is professor of East Asian cultural history at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Margaret B. Wan is associate professor of Chinese literature at the University of Utah, USA. Vibeke Bordahl is senior researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen University, Denmark.
