Description
Nanjng in the eyes of Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions:
"THIS METROPLITAN CITY is called Nankin...In the judgement of the Chinese this city surpasses all other cities in the world in beauty and in grandeur... It is literally filled with palaces and temples and towers and bridges, and these are scarcely surpassed by similar structures in Europe... There is a gaiety of spirit among the people, who are well mannered and nicely spoken...in the whole kingdom of China and in all bordering countries, Nankin is rated as the first city.
This city was once the capital of the entire realm and the ancient abode of kings through many centuries, and though the kind changed his residence to Pekin, in the north, ... Nankin lost none of it splendor or of its reputation..." - Ricci, Matteo, Nicolas Trigault, and Louis J. Gallagher. 1953. China in the Sixteenth Century: The Journals of Matthew Ricci, 1583-1610. New York: Random House. pp. 268-270.
"An elegant city with the European and American planning models adopted at the macro level, and the traditional Chinese style at the micro level - the most beautiful, clean and well-planned modern city in twentieth-century China." - YE Zhaoyan: remarks on the modern Nanjing city
About the Author
YE Zhaoyan is one of China's bestselling and most acclaimed writers. Born and based in Nanjing, he graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing University. Many of his books have been translated into English and other languages, including A Flower's Shade (Simon & Schuster), Nanjing 1937: A Love Story (Columbia University Press), How Stubborn Our Hearts (Simon & Schuster), Other People's Love (Simon & Schuster). It is worth mentioning that YE Zhaoyan is the grandson of YE Shengtao (1894-1988), one of China's most influential educators, founder of the Association for Literary Studies, the first literature association during the May Fourth Movement (1919) in China.
Book Information
ISBN 9781626430648
Author Zhaoyan YE
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Bridge21 Publications, LLC
Publisher Bridge21 Publications, LLC