Yangtze River The Wildest, Wickedest River on Earth Paperback - 1997
by Madeleine Lynn
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I grew up in a small village by the Jialing River, a tributary of the Yangtze.
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This new collection of writing, spanning thirteen centuries, offers a literary history of China's longest, most varied waterway, and includes classical Chinese poetry, Victorian memoirs and contemporary travel writing. Some of the river's first visitors were poet-officials: Lu Yu and Du Fu, posted to remote Yangtze towns, wrote of their sense of isolation and insignificance among their strange, majestic surroundings. Writers born along the Yangtze describe a lifestyle on the river that has barely changed for centuries. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Europeans came, traders and missionaries, who tried for years to master the powerful river and understand the ways of the Chinese. Later the Yangtze divided the Communist-held north and the Nationalist south, and marked Mao Zedong's triumph when he and his army crossed it to victory in 1949. Nowadays, writers, such as Colin Thubron and Paul Theroux, still marvel at the towering gorges, while deploring the changes that industry has brought to its banks.
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- Title Yangtze River The Wildest, Wickedest River on Earth
- Author Madeleine Lynn
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- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford and New York
- Date February 25, 1997
- ISBN 9780195869200
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- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
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