| #2148174 in Books | 2004-04-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.60 x6.00l,1.33 | File type: PDF | 240 pages||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Eye-opening scholarship|By John C. Nausieda|I've been designing gardens in Portland Oregon for the past twenty years and have spent over a year in China studying gardens there. Chinese gardens are extremely complex and full of symbolism in almost every element . This book documents a shift in the purpose and meaning of gardens in Suzhou during the Ming . Without it you really c||"The most extraordinary and original study of Chinese gardens in any language. . . . This book is unique in the Western literature on Chinese gardens, nor is there anything like it in the Chinese literature." |--Timothy Brook, "American Historical "
Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to be wholly based on contemporary Chinese sources, this beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-making in Ming Dynasty China (1369–1644) firmly in the social and cultural history of the day.
Who owned gardens? Who visited them? How were they represented in words, in paintings and in visual ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China (Envisioning Asia) | Craig Clunas. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
