Nanjing Urban History

Previously, there was Jiang Zan chu's "Nanjing Shihua"; now there's Xue Bing's "Nanjing Urban History."
A comprehensive account of Nanjing's 2,500-year history as a city and nearly 500 years as a capital.
China's first urban history, a classic reader on Nanjing culture.
Fully presents Feng Ning's Qing Dynasty imitation of Yang Dazhang's Song Dynasty "Jinling Tu,"
and Zhu Zhifan's Ming Dynasty "Forty Scenes of Jinling: Illustrated Poems."
★Editor's Recommendation
◎The first comprehensive account of Nanjing's 2,500-year history as a city and nearly 500 years as a capital; Nanjing's first comprehensive history; China's first urban history.
This book presents a temporal landscape of the same space, illustrating the journey of Nanjing from its inception to its present state, from small to large, on this very land. From the Beiyinyangying Culture of ancient times to the "Harmonious Nanjing" of the 21st century, it connects the threads of time, offering a panoramic view of Nanjing's urban growth. It is China's first urban history.
◎A classic reader on Nanjing culture, highly recommended by the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee and Government.
Nanjing is both an imperial city and a beautiful land, a capital of six dynasties and a metropolis of ten eras, a tragic city and a harmonious capital. This book thoroughly explores the glory and tribulations, past and present, essence and expansion of a 2,500-year-old city. It is a classic reader on Nanjing culture and has been a bestseller for fifteen years.
◎Based on text, supplemented by historical maps, archaeological artifacts, ancient paintings, old photographs, and new photographic works, echoing between ancient and modern, imaginatively, descriptively, and reconstructively depicting Nanjing's growth and development from multiple dimensions, levels, and perspectives.
The latest edition of "Nanjing Urban History" includes 50 historical maps, 20 artifact images, 45 ancient paintings, 60 old photographs, and 40 new works by contemporary photographers. For periods before the Southern Tang, archaeological artifacts are primarily featured. The Ming and Qing dynasties focus on images of Nanjing captured by foreign photographers and travelers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Special illustrated sections have been added for the Tang, Song, Ming dynasties, and the 21st century, supplementing the scenic beauty and conceptual spaces of Jinling.
◎Authorized by the Deji Art Museum in Nanjing, the entire ten-meter-long scroll of "Feng Ning's Qing Dynasty Imitation of Yang Dazhang's Song Dynasty Jinling Tu" by a Qing Dynasty court painter is included, printed separately as an accompanying booklet, to showcase the Jinling style from the Southern Tang to the Song Dynasty.
The national treasure "Feng Ning's Qing Dynasty Imitation of Yang Dazhang's Song Dynasty Jinling Tu" provides invaluable pictorial reference material for studying the social customs, economic history, commercial history, agricultural and handicraft history, architectural history, and even transportation history of the Song Dynasty. This painting was acquired by the Nanjing Deji Art Museum in 2015 for 50 million yuan, returning to Nanjing, and is included in a mass-market book for the first time.
◎Includes "Forty Scenes of Jinling: Illustrated Poems" by Zhu Zhifan, a Ming Dynasty Jinling zhuangyuan (top scholar), affirming the urban imagination and memory pattern of the "world's largest city."
In the late Ming Dynasty, literati and officials developed a trend of touring and viewing scenic spots. Zhu Zhifan personally selected "Forty Scenes of Jinling," harmonizing the imperial aura of Jinling with literati taste, following the established trajectory of urban imagination, and tracing Nanjing's Six Dynasties culture, thereby shaping the memory pattern of the city and establishing the urban touring space of Nanjing that influences it to this day. The book presents this in a complete special section.
◎Over 20 high-definition images from the new century, transitioning from black and white memories to colorful reality, making urban growth concrete and detailed.
The end of this book compiles works by several young Nanjing photographers, such as Fang Fei, Zhao Yao, and Ruan Zhong, depicting the rapidly developing new areas of Nanjing and the new appearance of historical and cultural heritage in the old city during the new century, showcasing the harmonious development of contemporary Nanjing.
★Media Recommendation
The first comprehensive history written for a single city in China, comprehensively and systematically elucidating the development process of Nanjing. – Nanjing Daily
★Content Introduction
"Nanjing Urban History" for the first time comprehensively, systematically, completely, and clearly elucidates Nanjing's 2,500-year history as a city and nearly 500 years as a capital. The book is divided into two parts:
The first part primarily traces the growth and evolution of ancient Nanjing, from the Beiyinyangying and Hushu sites of the Neolithic Age, the settlements of Tangyi, Laizhu, Yuecheng, Jinlingyi, and Yecheng during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, to Shitoucheng, Jianye, and Jiankang during the Six Dynasties period, from Jinling City of the Southern Tang to Nanjing of the Ming Dynasty, and then to modern Nanjing in the Qing Dynasty. Starting with interpreting historical documents and conducting field surveys, it explores lost links, pieces together fragmented images, sorts out old knowledge, supplements memories, clarifies doubts, elucidates new insights, and outlines a relatively complete and clear historical scroll of Nanjing's urban growth within a broad temporal and spatial framework.
The second part focuses on the past century since the emergence of modern planning, from the capital construction plans of the Republic of China to the "harmonious city" construction integrating "mountains, rivers, cities, and forests" in the 21st century, addressing how people undertake further construction in a historically significant cultural city. It elevates the exploration of historical facts to the refinement of historical facts, sorting out the脉络 of modern Nanjing's urban growth and several important experiences in urban construction, such as cross-river development, a broad mind embracing the sea, the tradition of utilizing natural landscapes, the clear distinction of functional areas, the principle of respecting the rights of indigenous residents, the advantages of preserving the old city while building new ones and leapfrog development; in particular, by reflecting on the successes and failures of various modern urban planning practices over the past century, it explores how to re-construct a historically significant cultural city, offering a macroscopic evaluation of contemporary Nanjing's urban construction and providing a reference system for the city's future scientific, healthy, and sustainable development.

2022-02-01

江苏凤凰文艺出版社

the new wave

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9787559460004