Every Rock a Universe: The Yellow Mountains and Chinese Travel Writing

by Jonathan Chaves and Jonathan Chaves professor of Chinese The George Washington University

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The Yellow Mountains (Huangshan) of China's Anhui province have been famous for centuries as a place of scenic beauty and inspiration, and remain a hugely popular tourist destination today. A "golden age" of Yellow Mountains travel came in the seventeenth century, when they became a refuge for loyalists protesting the new Qing dynasty, among them poet and artist Wang Hongdu (1646-1721/1722), who dedicated himself to traveling to each...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891640704
• ISBN13: 9781891640704
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Floating World Editions
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"