Contents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Antonio José Mezcua López and Xiaolin Duan Part 1 Water in Literature1 Between the Placid Mirror and Roiling Waves: the Materiality of Water and the Literary Imagination of Hangzhou in Poetry of the Tang-Song Era Benjamin Ridgway 2 The Early White Snake Tradition and Water Myth in the Cultural History of West Lake Roland Altenburger Part 2 Water in Management3 Challenges to the Water Control of West Lake from the Tang to the Ming Dynasties (8th to 17th Centuries) Silvia Freiin Ebner von Eschenbach 4 Hangzhou's West Lake in the 20th Century--Conceptual and Other Milestones Thomas H. Hahn Part 3 Material Culture of West Lake5 Drinking, Sightseeing, and Place Knowledge: the History of West Lake Tea Xiaolin Duan 6 Form Appreciation, the Feeling of Vitality, and Imagining Mountains: the Rock Culture of West Lake in Hangzhou Kai Gu Part 4 West Lake and Overseas Conceptions7 Marco Polo's Quinsai and West Lake in the European Imagination Antonio José Mezcua López 8 Importing a Cultural Landmark: the Genealogy of West Lake Painting of the Kano School Mengyuan Chai 9 West Lake in Korea: Literal and Visual Imagination during the Goryeo and Joseon Periods Youenhee Kho Part 5 Other "West Lake(s)" as Urban Lakes10 From West Lake to the Summer Palace: Hangzhou's Impact on the Evolution of Scenery in Beijing's Western Suburbs Danxiu Chen 11 H T'y, the West Lake in Hanoi: a Cultural Landscape in Vietnam Cristina Nualart Index.