Love Along the Maritime Silk Road [Chinese-English]. ISBN: 9787558614026

English Title: Love Along the Maritime Silk Road (Chinese-English)
Chinese Title: 丝路碧海情 (中英对照)
Author/Editor: Yu Qiang (于强)
Illustration: You Shan (尤山)
Translation: Huang Fuhai (黄福海)
ISBN-10: 7-5586-1402-3, 7558614023
ISBN-13: 978-7-5586-1402-6, 9787558614026
Binding: softcover
Pages: 225 Seiten
Shipping Weight: 680g
Size: 170mm x 262mm (Querformat)
Language: simplified Chinese, English
Publisher: Shanghai People's Fine Art Publishing House (上海人民美术出版社)

This newly created picture-story book Love Along the Maritime Silk Road is set in the Ming Dynasty when the royal official Zheng He voyaged to the Western Seas. The story took place in the ancient city of Fengzhou at the foot of mt. Jiuri in Nan'an of Quanzhou during famous Emperor Yongle's reign. It describes the turtuous experience of Wang Maoyuan, a tradesman from Fengzhou, and his family members, who has a dream of shipping out along the Maritime Silk Road, and by overcoming successive barriers, sailed to Southeast Asia, and ended up with a harvest of great love.

This book represents the spirit of the Minnian people in exploring the Maritime Silk Road, and shows a picture of the local customs, trading business, and the love and friendship of the peoples in Southeast Asia in ancient times.

Illustrated by famous illustrator Mister You Shan. The illustrations shown in this book use expressive methods of Chinese painting while injecting Western painting elements, combining ink and colour, lines and blocks and other elements from both east and west, and maximizing the historic effect with thick colours and fresh strokes.