Becoming Landscape: Hangzhou’s West Lake from its Origins to the Five Dynasties
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West Lake
Hangzhou
landscape
China

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Mezcua Lopez, Antonio José. 2017. “Becoming Landscape: Hangzhou’s West Lake from its Origins to the Five Dynasties”. Estudios de Asia y África 53 (1): 5-34. https://doi.org/10.24201/eaa.v53i1.2229
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The city of Hangzhou’s West Lake is one of most important places in the cultural history of China, and yet, there is a lack of research about it in western languages. This article intends to approach the period when the West Lake took on identity as a separate “landscape”, using new interdisciplinary methodologies on landscape studies. We will review the time between the Warring States and the Five Dynasties periods, demonstrating the processes by which a certain place can take on the identity of a famous landscape in Chinese culture.

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