Date | 2008 |
Publish_location | London |
Publisher | Scala |
Collection | Ricci Institute Library [Luce] |
Edition | |
Language | English |
Record_type | Book |
Series | World Monuments Fund series |
Shelf | Seminar Room 102-103 |
Call Number | NK2083.B45 J83 2008 |
Description | 63 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm. |
Note | Juanqinzhai 倦勤斋in the Qianlong Garden, The Forbidden City, Beijing = 倦勤斋 / essays by Nancy Berliner ... [et al.] ; with additional contributions by Bonnie Burnham ... [et al.] ; editor, Nancy Berliner. This book is published on the occasion of the restoration and opening of Juanqinzhai (Studio of Exhaustion from Diligent Service) undertaken by the Palace Museum and World Monuments Fund. Foreword : Juanqinzhai and the Qianlong Garden / Jin Hongkui 晉宏逵 -- Foreword : Juanqinzhai and its restoration / Bonnie Burnham -- Introduction : a visionary son of Heaven / Nancy Berliner -- The emperor as connoisseur and designer : the architectural and historical significance of Juanqinzhai / Nancy Berliner, Liu Chang 劉暢 and Yuan Hongqi 苑洪琪 -- Foundations of an international collaboration / John Stubbs -- Rebuilding the fragments of a dream : conservation and restoration of Juanqinzhai / T.K. McClintock [and others] -- The future : Juanqinzhai and the Qianlong Garden / Henry Tzu Ng 伍子興. "A look at Juanqinzhai, one of the five most important interiors to survive China's imperial past"--OCLC record note. |
Subject | Qianlong 乾隆, Emperor of China, 1711-1799--Homes and haunts Forbidden City 紫禁城 (Beijing)--Buildings, structures, etc. Interior architecture--Conservation and restoration--China--Beijing Juanqinzhai 倦勤齋 (Beijing)--Views |
Series | foo 95 |
ISBN | 9781857595468 ; 1857595467 |