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Title: 永远的家园&em;土楼漫游 (The Eternal Home&em;Wandering Through the Tulous)
Author: 何葆国 (He Baoguo)
Photographer: 曲利明 (Qu Liming)
Number of Pages: 200 pages
Genre: Non-fiction; Travel
Book Number/Goal: 5 of 16 for the year; 1 of 8 for the language requirement
My Rating: 3/5
Review: I won't lie. I bought this book primarily because the photography was amazing, and because I was really interested in the Tulou buildings of the Hakka people. Also, I needed to write a 3000 character paper, and I thought I would be writing about these buildings. (It ended up only being a short section of the paper, and I didn't even use the book, but oh well, at least it's pretty!)
The photography is amazing and is why I bought this book in the first place. I liked the introduction where it gave a pretty dramatically written (as is typical in Chinese fashion) of the history of the Tulous. I found the middle bits boring, because it was really just a list and description of all the Tulous of any significance in Fujian province. By the third such chapter, I was already bored. The last two chapters I found interesting because it was about the construction of the Tulou and the traditions of the Hakka people who live there still.
Author: 何葆国 (He Baoguo)
Photographer: 曲利明 (Qu Liming)
Number of Pages: 200 pages
Genre: Non-fiction; Travel
Book Number/Goal: 5 of 16 for the year; 1 of 8 for the language requirement
My Rating: 3/5
Review: I won't lie. I bought this book primarily because the photography was amazing, and because I was really interested in the Tulou buildings of the Hakka people. Also, I needed to write a 3000 character paper, and I thought I would be writing about these buildings. (It ended up only being a short section of the paper, and I didn't even use the book, but oh well, at least it's pretty!)
The photography is amazing and is why I bought this book in the first place. I liked the introduction where it gave a pretty dramatically written (as is typical in Chinese fashion) of the history of the Tulous. I found the middle bits boring, because it was really just a list and description of all the Tulous of any significance in Fujian province. By the third such chapter, I was already bored. The last two chapters I found interesting because it was about the construction of the Tulou and the traditions of the Hakka people who live there still.