Song Full Of Tears Nine Centuries Of Chinese Life Around Xiang Lake,9780813340203

Song Full Of Tears Nine Centuries Of Chinese Life Around Xiang Lake

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ISBN13: 9780813340203
ISBN10: 0813340209
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-11-14
Publisher(s): Basic Books
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Summary

Through a beautiful and compelling narrative, Schoppa traces the lives and history at Xiang Lake, a reservoir from its creation in 1112 to the present

Author Biography

R. Keith Schoppais the Doehler Chair in Asian History at Loyola College. He is the author of five books, one of which – Blood Road – won the 1997 Association for Asian Studies Levenson Prize for the best book on twentieth century China. In 1994 he was named Indiana Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He lives in Towson, Maryland.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Periods of Early Modern and Modern Chinese History xvii
Major Personages in the Life of Xiang Lake, Xiaoshan County xviii
Note on Pronunciation xx
I View: From North Trunk Mountain, Late Twelfth Century 3(28)
The Beginnings, 1112--1214: Four Servants of the People
9(22)
II View: Chenxi Garden, Late Fifteenth Century 31(28)
Obligation and Death, 1378--1500
36(23)
III View: The King of Yue Garrison, Late Sixteenth Century 59(26)
Strange Fruit: Lineages and the Lake, 1519--1555
64(21)
IV View: On Pure Land Mountain, 1689 85(30)
Image and Remembrance, 1644--1705
89(26)
V View: Sailing on the Lake from Upper Sun Village to Green Mountain, 1783 115(28)
Restoring the Lake: Of Mud-Dredgers, Leeches, and Worm Officers, 1758--1809
120(23)
VI View: Yewu Mountain, Late 1860s 143(24)
The Beginning of the End: Cataclysm and Silence, 1861--1901
147(20)
VII View: From One View Pavilion on Stone Grotto Mountain, 1925 167(22)
Fending Off the Scavengers, 1903--1921
171(18)
VIII View: From One View Pavilion on Genuine Peace Mountain, 1937 189(24)
Ends and Means, 1926--1937
192(21)
IX View: From Little Li Mountain, Late 1980s 213(30)
Transmutations, 1937--1986
220(23)
Epilogue 243(6)
Abbreviations Used in Notes 249(2)
Notes 251(22)
Bibliography 273(10)
Index 283

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