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Stories Set in Hangzhou
Hangzhou is a lakeside city west of Shanghai ringed by tea fields, canals and wooded hills. Its time as capital of Southern Song from 1127 to 1279 filled West Lake with causeways and temples, teaching later writers to use it as a stage for romance and reflection. Peony in Love and The Cloud in Her Room sit on its shelf. Open Hangzhou on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Hangzhou on the StoryTerra map5 famous stories set in Hangzhou
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Browse 2 books and 3 movies set in Hangzhou.
Khan: Empire of Silver
The Great Khan is dead. His vast empire hangs in the balance, an empire he forged with raw courage, guile, tactical brilliance, unswerving dedication to his people, and the force of his own indomitable will. Now the…
Peony in Love
In seventeenth-century China, three women become emotionally involved with The Peony Pavilion, a famed opera rumored to cause lovesickness and even death, including Peony, the cloistered daughter of a wealthy scholar,…
The Cloud in Her Room
Muzi 22 comes home to Hangzhou for Chinese New Year where she plays her roles as a daughter a half-sister and a girlfriend. Roaming in this city that feels so familiar yet distant Muzi searches for a place where she…
Million Dollar Crocodile
The film tells the story of an eight meter long crocodile on the rampage in Hangzhou. Xiao befriends Amao a 36 foot crocodile who lives on his fathers croc sanctuary. Soon his father is forced to sell the crocodiles to…
Dwelling by the West Lake
Second chapter of Shanshui Painting series from Gu portrays a mother and her son living amid economic turbulence in the beautiful Chinese green tea-farming landscape.
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