Spring Dawn and Su Causeway: History and Landscape Culture of Hangzhou's West Lake /

Spring Dawn and Su Causeway: History and Landscape Culture of Hangzhou's West Lake /

What lies beneath the enduring charm of West Lake? This volume reveals how this iconic Hangzhou landscape evolved from a swamp into a public space and, ultimately, a powerful cultural symbol. Through new interdisciplinary research, it reframes West Lake within long-term landscape formation, showing...

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Other Authors: López, Antonio José Mezcua (Editor), Duan, Xiaolin (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Series: Sinica Leidensia ; 176.
Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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Asian Studies.
History.
Chinese History.

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Call Number: DS1 .A4915

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Antonio José Mezcua López and Xiaolin Duan
  • Part 1 Water in Literature
  • 1 Between the Placid Mirror and Roiling Waves: the Materiality of Water and the Literary Imagination of Hangzhou in Poetry of the Tang-Song Era
  • Benjamin Ridgway
  • 2 The Early White Snake Tradition and Water Myth in the Cultural History of West Lake
  • Roland Altenburger
  • Part 2 Water in Management
  • 3 Challenges to the Water Control of West Lake from the Tang to the Ming Dynasties (8th to 17th Centuries)
  • Silvia Freiin Ebner von Eschenbach
  • 4 Hangzhou's West Lake in the 2th Century-Conceptual and Other Milestones
  • Thomas H. Hahn
  • Part 3 Material Culture of West Lake
  • 5 Drinking, Sightseeing, and Place Knowledge: the History of West Lake Tea
  • Xiaolin Duan
  • 6 Form Appreciation, the Feeling of Vitality, and Imagining Mountains: the Rock Culture of West Lake in Hangzhou
  • Kai Gu
  • Part 4 West Lake and Overseas Conceptions
  • 7 Marco Polo's Quinsai and West Lake in the European Imagination
  • Antonio José Mezcua López
  • 8 Importing a Cultural Landmark: the Genealogy of West Lake Painting of the Kanō School
  • Mengyuan Chai
  • 9 West Lake in Korea: Literal and Visual Imagination during the Goryeo and Joseon Periods
  • Youenhee Kho
  • Part 5 Other "West Lake(s)" as Urban Lakes
  • 1 From West Lake to the Summer Palace: Hangzhou's Impact on the Evolution of Scenery in Beijing's Western Suburbs
  • Danxiu Chen
  • 11 Hồ Tây, the West Lake in Hanoi: a Cultural Landscape in Vietnam
  • Cristina Nualart
  • Index.