City Image: Wuchang's Historical Landscape Changes
by Liu Wenxiang
About This Novel
This book is a concise visual reader about the history of Wuchang. It uses the urban landscape as the entry point and uses "ancient", "bricks", "change" and "new scenery" as clues to unearth various stories of the historical changes of this ancient city since the Song and Ming Dynasties, especially in the modern period. As a new generation scholar of urban history, the author has gone deep into the streets and alleys of the old city of Wuchang many times, photographed a large number of first-hand images, and searched collections at home and abroad. He has collected more than a hundred rare old photos, vividly recreating the hidden details of the ancient city's historical features. The disappeared Chu Palace, the old city gate of Wuchang, the Yellow Crane Tower that was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, the Consultation Bureau during the Wuchang Uprising, the Yangtze River Bridge that has experienced ups and downs... Reading through the thousand-year history of the rise and fall of this ancient city, we will have a deeper understanding and thinking about the reality and the future.
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