Author: Chen Gang
Publication Date: January 2007
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press
ISBN: 9787119032832
Abstract:
Many guidebooks have appeared in Chinese dedicated to Hangzhou ,the city of Heaven described by Marco Polo, now,added to those is Hangzhou ,the first English guidebook of its kind in china .This book has fie outstanding features.
About the Author:
Chen Gang was born and educated in Hangzhou ,To date, he is the only Tour Guide Extraordinaire in East China's Zhejiang Province, and the only professor in January 1982 from the English Language and Literature Department of Zhejiang University, he began to serve as an English-speaking guide interpreter, and later as manager of the Euro American Department of china Travel service, he is author of West Lake Poetics, chief translator of A Trip to Mountains and Rivers in Zhejiang province ,one o the few official translators of the Macmillan Encyclopedia ,and theses on couplets have been featured in national and provincial academic publications.
Contents:
Chapter One:Hangzhou as a paradise City
Chapter Two:Hangzhou as a Historic City
Chapter Three:West Lake the Pride of Hangzhou
Chapter Four:Across the Lake
Chapter Five In the Lake
Chapter Six:Around the Lake
Lakeview Pavilion
Broken Bridge
Brocade Ribbon Bridge
Autumn Moon Over the Calm
Lakeview Bridge
Broken Ribbon Bridge
Autumn Moon Over the Calm Lake
Solitary Hill
An Echo from a Still Valley
Zhong shan Park
Lin Hejing 's Tomb
Crane Pavion
The West Lake Heavenly Sight
Xiling Seal Engravers' Sight
Yu's House
Liuyi Spring
Qiu jin's Statue and Tomb
Xiling Bridge