Beijing and Nanjing: the Indelible Love of Kyoto in Ming and Qing Novels
by Zhang Xu
About This Novel
This book is one of the "Two Cities Book Series of Ancient Chinese Literature" series. It discusses the images of the two major cities of Beijing and Nanjing reflected in the novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Beijing and Nanjing became the two most important cities in the north and south with their irreplaceable roles in politics, culture, and economy. This book focuses on the urban writing of Beijing and Nanjing in popular novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It studies the relationship between the city and its citizens presented in the novel text, the similarities and differences in the urban cultural spirit of Beijing and Nanjing, and the mentality behind the urban writing of the novel authors, in order to provide a three-dimensional and relatively complete presentation of the urban images of Beijing and Nanjing in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
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