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Commentary on the Water Classic, Volume 1
Commentary on the Water Classic (水經注)
Li Daoyuan follows every river of China from source to sea. Along the way it records legends, battles, temples, bridges, tombs and landscapes, in some of the finest descriptive prose in classical Chinese. This first volume begins at Kunlun with the Yellow River and the northern rivers. This complete new English translation is published in two volumes; this is Volume 1 of 2, and the whole set is also available as a bundle. It is both a geography and a treasury of legends, battles, temples and landscapes attached to every river of the empire. Travellers, poets and historians have used it for fifteen centuries, and it remains the richest single description of the landscape of early China. Names are in modern pinyin and the text rendered as plain, readable English prose.
