The trees of Moling welcome spring's return, while the people of Jiankang grow old.
A widely acclaimed master of prose, Ye Zhaoyan has a distinctive understanding of Nanjing, the city he has written about for forty years.
Nanjing offers him a stage on which to tell the story of Chinese history. It is repeatedly destroyed and wounded, then reborn and developed anew. At every turning point in history, it takes center stage, only to exit as a defeated player. Through Nanjing, the vicissitudes of Chinese history are laid bare.
In The Story of Nanjing, the culmination of forty years of writing, Ye Zhaoyan traces and examines the city's history, using its past as his framework. From Sun Quan moving his seat of government to Moling in 211 AD to a million troops crossing the Yangtze in 1949, Nanjing has witnessed the rise of Eastern Wu, the splendor of the Six Dynasties, Southern Tang's retreat to the south, the rise and fall of the Ming and Qing, and the tumult of the Republic of China. How did the city take shape, step by step? What historical significance lies behind its ancient names: Moling, Jianye, Stone City, and Jiankang? How did its urban infrastructure evolve, from bamboo fences to the Ming city wall? What enduring legends did figures such as Sun Quan, Xiao Yan, Li Bai, Yan Zhenqing, Li Yu, Wang Anshi, Xin Qiji, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, Matteo Ricci, Zhang Zhidong, and Sun Yat-sen leave behind in Nanjing? ...
A native of Nanjing, Ye Zhaoyan writes its story as both a literary figure and a historian, carefully unraveling the threads of the past as he invites readers to "look at Chinese history through the window of Nanjing." Here, Nanjing is not just a setting for the story, but a vantage point from which to gaze into the distance. The Story of Nanjing can also be read as a history of China told from the perspective of Nanjing.
Nanjing people speak of Nanjing and describe the general history of Nanjing in terms of civilian character. Starting with the flow of the Three Kingdoms, Sun Quan built the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, all because of Zhang Hong's contribution to the capital... Around Nanjing, from the Three Kingdoms to the Southern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China, from ancient legends, twenty-four histories, market gossip, changes in clothing, celebrities, flood control, existing ancient buildings, and the origin of today's Nanjing dialect... Cities gather because of people, just like stars gather in the Milky Way. The pursuit of dreams rushes by, and the light of ideals shines in the city. The wanderer has been wandering all over the world for a long time, and the nostalgia warms his heart. There are many stories of fireworks in the world, and the passage of time paints new colors.
Super nice book. Thanks to Teacher Ye for using his unpretentious writing style and detailed historical materials to present to us the history of 2,300 years before the liberation of Nanjing.
The history books are great
Reading the book "Nanjing Biography" in Nanjing is like listening to a kind elder using humorous language to talk about the history of the ancient capital Nanjing ❤️
The plot is vivid. Close to life and very contagious.
Super love to look good
__It sounds good, five-star praise
I like it very much, but there are too few gold coins.
Prosperous and in a trance, recommended good books
Tomato novel is very good, I like it very much, I read it every day, it is really good.