Song Full Of Tears

Nine Centuries Of Chinese Life Around Xiang Lake

By: R. Keith Schoppa

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Paperback | 1 January 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Combining evocative historical description and cogent analysis, Song Full of Tears is a chronicle of nine hundred years of life in southeast China. It reveals the workings of Chinese society in times of environmental and military crises, how the Chinese reacted to changes, threats, and opportunities, and how they dealt with one another and the world of nature and the environment. Until the 18th century, Xiang Lake, in the province of Zheijiang, was the stage for morality battles between loyalty and betrayal, chastity and impurity, civic virtue and private greed. After the 18th century, concerns about ecology, public rights, and technology emerged as elements in the struggle, and in the 20th century, the fate of the lake became linked to national political developments and then to technological and ecological realities. Song Full of Tears shows how Chinese views of life, society, and nature both changed and remained constant through the centuries. The paperback will include a new epilogue by the author.

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List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Periods of Early Modern and Modern Chinese History
Major Personages in the Life of Xiang Lake, Xiaoshan Country
Note on Pronunciation
View: From North Trunk Mountain, Late Twelfth Century	p. 3
Chapter: The Beginnings, 1112-1214: Four Servants of the People	p. 9
View: Chenxi Garden, Late Fifteenth Century	p. 31
Chapter: Obligation and Death, 1378-1500	p. 36
View: The King of Yue Garrison, Late Sixteenth Century	p. 59
Chapter: Strange Fruit: Lineages and the Lake, 1519-1555	p. 64
View: On Pure Land Mountain, 1689	p. 85
Chapter: Image and Remembrance, 1644-1705	p. 89
View: Sailing on the Lake from Upper Sun Village to Green Mountain, 1783	p. 115
Chapter: Restoring the Lake: Of Mud-Dredgers, Leeches, and Worm Officers, 1758-1809	p. 120
View: Yewu Mountain, Late 1860s	p. 143
Chapter: The Beginning of the End: Cataclysm and Silence, 1861-1901	p. 147
View: From One View Pavilion on Stone Grotto Mountain, 1925	p. 167
Chapter: Fending Off the Scavengers, 1903-1921	p. 171
View: From One View Pavilion on Genuine Peace Mountain, 1937	p. 189
Chapter: Ends and Means, 1926-1937	p. 192
View: From Little Li Mountain, Late 1980s	p. 213
Chapter: Transmutations, 1937-1989	p. 220
Epilogue	p. 243
Abbreviations Used in Notes	p. 249
Notes	p. 251
Bibliography	p. 273
Index	p. 283
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