深柳大師與深柳堂
Wu Yankang 武延康
Translated by Frederick W. Mote
閒門向山處
深柳讀書堂
Editor’s Note
The following is an account of the Jinping Buddhist Press, founded in Nanking following the depredations of the Lower Yangtze Valley, and the wholesale destruction of Buddhist monasteries, libraries and practice, during the pseudo-Christian Taiping Rebellion (1851-1865).… Read
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The Age of Exuberance
David Hawkes
The Chinese equivalent of the sack of Rome occurred in A.D. 311 when [the capital of the Latter Han dynasty] Luoyang fell to the barbarians. As many better-off Chinese as could get away fled south, where a Chinese court had established itself in Nanking.… Read
Kangxi and Xiaoling
Kangxi visits Xiaoling and also the former imperial palace
治隆唐宋… Read
Choice Morsels from Li Yu
Selected and translated by T.C. Lai 賴恬昌
No account of Nanking would be complete without reference to Li Yu 李漁 (李笠翁, 1610-1680) who published The Arts of Living 閒情偶寄 in 1671, when he was sixty.. … Read
Tung Chuin on The Garden of Accommodation
Translated and Introduced by Duncan M. Campbell
《隨園考》童寯 著
The architectural engineer Tung Chuin (童寯, 1890-1983) was a long-time resident of Nanking. During his years living in the city he taught at various universities and became known also as one of the foremost garden historians of the twentieth century.… Read
Sui 隋
In the year 549 CE, the general Hou Jing (侯景, d.552) leads a rebellion and lays siege to Jiankang 建康, that is Jianye/ Jinling/ Nanking. The emperor Wu of Liang starves to death in the Terrace Citadel 臺城.… Read