One of the famous canal cities of the world and a former center of culture, trade, transportation, and fashion, the old town of Yangzhou evokes romantic bridges

"The book focuses on the previously overlooked period between the conquest and the city's commercial florescence - a moment in which Yangzhou functioned as an i

This is in some ways a biography of a city that acquired a personality, even a gender, and became an actor in its own history. The author examines the city's pl

A chilling tale of seduction and vice set in the illiciit world of nineteenth-century China.

Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of