Legends of the Building of Old Peking

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Legends of the Building of Old Peking is a study of a series of unique popular legends surrounding the building of the imperial cities in old Peking, including the Nazha City legend of the Yuan ""Great Capital"" and the Ming ""Northern Capital,"" and the Mongol legend of ""sitting by bowshot to locate the capital city"" and its Chinese adaptations...The book is a unique study of the historical origins of the building of old Peking as well as the genesis and efflorescence of related popular culture in the modern capital of China.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-04-30
Vikt774 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor420
FörlagThe Chinese University Press
ISBN9789629963132

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This marvelously rich book tells new stories about an old city, Peking. Through 13th - 17th-century Chinese and Mongolian narratives and interpretations of them, Hok-lam Chan has for the first time recounted the popular history of how China's most dynamic city got its shape. Each story brings a political figure or ruler face to face with the legend: the integral relationship between the eight-armed Buddhist and folk child-deity Nezha (Nazha) and two ministers named Liu, the flight of a Mongolian archer's arrow and the ethnicity of the Yongle emperor, and others.... Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt University of Pennsylvania Author of Chinese Imperial City Planning