South of the Yangtze - Paperback
by Bill Porter
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Language:EnglishPublisher:CatapultISBN-13:9781619027343ISBN-10:1619027348UPC:9781619027343Book Category:Travel, HistoryBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, AsiaBook Topic:East, ChinaSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC4FKPRR60
South of the Yangtze
Chinese civilization first developed 5,000 years ago in North China along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. And the Yellow River remained the center of Chinese civilization for the next 4,000 years. Then a thousand years ago, this changed. A thousand years ago, the center of Chinese civilization moved to the Yangtze. And the Yangtze, not the Yellow River, has remained the center...
Language:EnglishPublisher:CatapultISBN-13:9781619027343ISBN-10:1619027348UPC:9781619027343Book Category:Travel, HistoryBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, AsiaBook Topic:East, ChinaSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC4FKPRR60
Bill Porter (aka "Red Pine") is widely recognized as one of the world's preeminent translators of Chinese poetry and religious texts; he assumes the pen name "Red Pine" for his translations. Writing as Red Pine, he was the first translator to ever translate the entirety of Han-shan's oeurve into English, published as The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain. Red Pine was also the first to translate...
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