Zhongguo baojuan shengtaihua baohu yu chuancheng jiaoliu yantao hui lunwen ji 中國寶卷生態化保護與傳承交流研討會論文集 (Collected articles from a conference on the ecological preservation and transmission of baojuan in China)

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fruits, flowers, pets, and food. He ends with a wish for the eradication of all mosquitoes. It is hard to predict how this bookmight be used. Clearly the editors intend for it for the classroom market. But in what types of courses might it be assigned as a whole? Will it inspire new courses onYangzhou literature or history? Thanks to the Yangzhou Club and its affiliates, there is actually now enough primary and secondarymaterial in English for sucha class. Butwould students signup for a semester onwhat is to theman almost totally unknown city? Perhaps a Suzhou-Yangzhou-Shanghai course? Or Literary Cities of Late Imperial China? Or will this volume be disaggregated for selective use in courses on gardens, material culture, urban life, and performing arts—or for courses reflecting on the complex interactions between local and national, oral and written, elite and popular? In any event, infused with nostalgia and affection for its subject city, this collection makes a useful contribution and is also a pleasure to read. Perhaps the reputational heft of the assembled translators and texts will contribute to the renewal of Yangzhou’s status and fame?