The Rise Of West Lake
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The Rise Of West Lake
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Author : Xiaolin Duan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Rise Of West Lake written by Xiaolin Duan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with China categories.
"West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on China's east coast, has been a major tourist site since the twelfth century and a model for idealized nature. Visitors boat to its islands, stroll through its gardens, worship in its temples, and celebrate it in poetry and painting. Xiaolin Duan examines the interplay between cultural norms and the natural environment around West Lake during the Song dynasty (960-1279). After the Song lost north China to the Jurchens and the imperial court fled south, a new capital was established at Hangzhou in 1127, making the area the national political and cultural center. Duan shows how leisure activities in, on, and around West Lake influenced visitors' conceptualization of nature and sparked the emergence of the lake as a tourist destination, and how the natural landscape played an active role in shaping social pursuits and cultural constructs. Incorporating evidence from miscellanies, local and temple gazetteers, paintings, maps, poems, and anecdotes, she explores the complexity of the lake as an interactive site where ecological and economic concerns contended and where spiritual pursuits overlapped with aesthetic ones. The book will appeal to readers interested in urban and environmental history, cultural geography, and the sociology of tourism"--
The Rise Of West Lake
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Author : Xiaolin Duan
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2020-04-30
The Rise Of West Lake written by Xiaolin Duan and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-30 with History categories.
Lovely West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on China’s east coast, has been celebrated as a major tourist site since the twelfth century. Now as then, visitors boat to its islands, stroll through its gardens, worship in its temples, and immortalize it in poetry and painting. Hangzhou and West Lake have long served as icons of Chinese landscape appreciation, literary and artistic expression, and tourism. In the first in-depth English-language study of this picturesque locale, Xiaolin Duan examines the interplay between human enterprise and the natural environment during the Song dynasty (960–1279). After the Song lost north China to the Jurchens and the imperial court fled south, a new capital was established at Hangzhou, making the area the national political and cultural center. West Lake became a model for idealized nature, fashioned by the diverse activities of its visitors. Duan shows how engagements in, on, and around West Lake influenced visitors’ conceptualization of nature and sparked the emergence of the lake as a tourist destination, highlighting how the natural landscape played a role in shaping social and cultural constructs. Incorporating evidence from miscellanies, local and temple gazetteers, paintings, maps, poems, and anecdotes, The Rise of West Lake explores the complexity of the lake as an interactive site where ecological and economic concerns contended and where spiritual pursuits overlapped with aesthetic ones.
The People S West Lake
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Author : Qiliang He
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2023-07-31
The People S West Lake written by Qiliang He and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-31 with History categories.
The People's West Lake examines the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) efforts to reconfigure Hangzhou's urban space, alter the natural environment in West Lake (Xihu), and refashion the city's culture in post-1949 China. It pieces together five initiatives between the 1950s and the 1970s: the dredging of the lake, the construction of the public park of Watching Fish at the Flower Harbor (Huagang guanyu), the afforestation movement, the development of collectivized pig farming around West Lake, and the two campaigns to remove lakeside tombs. These projects were intended to generate visible and tangible results--a lake with a good depth, a scenic public garden, greener hills surrounding the lake, a growing swine population and rising productivity of fertilizer, and a tourist site cleansed of burial grounds--while also being readily subject to the Party's propaganda. These initiatives were designed both to achieve economic, cultural, and ecological utilities and to forge and popularize a sense of socialist nationhood. The CCP's endeavor to fundamentally transform the West Lake area also opened up possibilities for both human and nonhuman actors to variously benefit from, get along with, and undermine the political authorities' planning. This book thus emphatically foregrounds and unifies the agency of both humans and nonhuman entities that are not necessarily tied to intentionality, bringing into question the legitimacy of the human/nonhuman binary. Author Qiliang He explores the agency of both humans and nonhumans (including water, microbes, aquatic plants, the park, pigs, trees, pests, and tombs) to affect, deflect, and undercut the CCP's sociopolitical programs, thereby diminishing the efficacy of state propaganda. Highlighting the nonpurposive agency of both actors problematizes the long-held resistance-accommodation paradigm, which presumes the resisters' a priori subjectivities independent of the socialist system, in studying the state-society relationship in the People's Republic of China. Using a project-based approach, The People's West Lake gives the nature-human relationship in Mao's China (best known as Mao's "war against nature") historical and cultural specificities to reexamine the PRC regime's central planning and the issues related to it.
Gallatin National Forest N F West Lake Timber Sale And Road Decommissioning Project
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Gallatin National Forest N F West Lake Timber Sale And Road Decommissioning Project written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
The Chinese Dream The Rise Of The World S Largest Middle Class And What It Means To You
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Author : Helen H. Wang
language : en
Publisher: Bestseller Press
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The Chinese Dream The Rise Of The World S Largest Middle Class And What It Means To You written by Helen H. Wang and has been published by Bestseller Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
(2nd Edition: July 6, 2012) In The Chinese Dream, a groundbreaking book about the rising middle class in China, Forbes columnist and China expert Helen Wang challenges us to recognize that some of our fears about China are grossly misplaced. As a result of China's new capitalist paradigm, a burgeoning middle class-calculated to reach 800 million within the next fifteen years-is jumping aboard the consumerism train and riding it for all it's worth-a reality that may provide the answer to America's economic woes. And with China's increasing urbanization and top-down governmental approach, it now faces increasing energy, environmental, and health problems-problems that the U.S. can help solve. Through timely interviews, personal stories, and a historical perspective, China-born Wang takes us into the world of the Chinese entrepreneurial middle class to show how a growing global mindset and the realization of unity in diversity may ultimately provide the way to creating a saner, safer world for all.
Middle Imperial China 900 1350
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Author : Linda Walton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-07-31
Middle Imperial China 900 1350 written by Linda Walton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-31 with History categories.
In this highly readable and engaging work, Linda Walton presents a dynamic survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries from the founding of the Song dynasty through the Mongol conquest when Song China became part of the Mongol Empire and Marco Polo made his famous journey to the court of the Great Khan. Adopting a thematic approach, she highlights the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural changes and continuities of the period often conceptualized as 'Middle Imperial China'. Particular emphasis is given to themes that inform scholarship on world history: religion, the state, the dynamics of empire, the transmission of knowledge, the formation of political elites, gender, and the family. Consistent coverage of peoples beyond the borders – Khitan, Tangut, Jurchen, and Mongol, among others – provides a broader East Asian context and introduces a more nuanced, integrated representation of China's past.
Hot Showers Soft Beds And Dayhikes In The Sierra
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Author : Kathy Morey
language : en
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Release Date : 2014-11-15
Hot Showers Soft Beds And Dayhikes In The Sierra written by Kathy Morey and has been published by Wilderness Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-15 with Travel categories.
With this book in hand, hikers can spend their days wandering in wildflower meadows, hiking to cragged peaks, or swimming in cobalt-blue lakes in the Sierra Nevada, and then settle into a deck chair at sunset to enjoy the alpenglow. Hot Showers, Soft Beds, & Dayhikes in the Sierra describes 112 carefully chosen dayhikes in Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks, John Muir, Ansel Adams, Desolation, and Emigrant wilderness areas, and more. Many hikes have easy-through-strenuous options, and every hike listed is in close proximity to one or more quality accommodations (over 80 cabins, B&Bs, motels, lodges, guest ranches, and resorts are described).
Daily Bulletin Of Weather Reports
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Daily Bulletin Of Weather Reports written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with categories.
Daily Bulletin Of Simultaneous Weather Reports Signal Service United States Army With The Synopses Indications And Facts
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Author : United States. Army. Signal Corps
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Daily Bulletin Of Simultaneous Weather Reports Signal Service United States Army With The Synopses Indications And Facts written by United States. Army. Signal Corps and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Meteorology categories.
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Author : 陈从周
language : en
Publisher: BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Release Date : 2021-12-08
written by 陈从周 and has been published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-08 with Travel categories.
本书展示了作者对园林史的研究，内容全面、遍及中国，阐述了园林的样式与内涵、造园者传记以及中国由来已久的精深造园史的特性。在中国独特的社会文化范围内，园林作为有意构建的避隐之所，从一开始就被赋予了“由建筑、山水、花木等组合而成的一个综合艺术品”的观念。