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Forgotten Kingdom

作者：Peter Goullart

出版社：Eland Publishing Limited

出版年：2017

ISBN：9781780600802

所属分类：行业好书

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内容简介

On the eve of PRC’s establishment, brilliant linguist Peter Goullart made himself totally at home in Likiang, capital of the all-but-forgotten Nakhi Kingdom of south west China. He unpicks the complex society, which believed simultaneously in Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Animism and Shamanism. Goullart lets us in on the love affairs and rivalries of his neighbours, his meetings with ancient dowagers and handsome warriors, as well as allowing us to catch the sound of the swift mountain streams, the coarse ribaldry of the markets and the happy laughter of the wine shops.

It is not easy to write a good book about paradise, but people are Mr. Goullart's forte, and when he mixes us up with the Nakhis he delivers us up to his idyll. Likiang itself, its sunlight and its owners and its rushing waters, its wine shops and caravans, its glints of danger, its swagger and its happy laughter, is beautifully captured in his story of adapting to and living in the Lijiang culture.

Written during the time when this "Silk Road" Town was the only access point for outside goods to China during WWII, "Forbidden Kingdom" is an incredible verbal picture painted by Peter Goullart's first-hand account of the changes that happened during the 1940s in the Nakhis Chinese area.

作品目录

Introduction
I The Caravan Journey To Likiang
II Likiang
III The Market And Wine-Shops Of Likiang
IV Further Afield
V The Start Of The Co-operatives
VI Medical Work
VII The Nakhis
VII The Tibetans
IX The Boa, The Lolos And The Minkia
X The Lamaseries
XI Poltergeists
XII Suicides And Dtomba Ceremonies
XIII Marriages
XIV Some Likiang Festivals
XV Music, Art And Leisure Among The Nakhi
XVI Progress
XVII Hoking Brigand
XVIII The Last Of Likiang
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作者简介

Peter Goullart was brought up in the Orient and spent most of his life there. Forgotten Kingdom describes his years in the ancient forgotten Chinese Kingdom of Nakhi in Yunnan, by the Tibetan border, where, as a representative of the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives, he really mixed with the people and the culture. It is a book about paradise by a man who lived there for nine y...

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