Gardens in China / Peter Valder.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-394) and index.

Through Western Eyes -- The Centre -- The North -- The South -- The East -- The West -- Table of Chinese Dynasties.

"With their distinctive characteristics, the gardens of China are amongst the most fascinating in the world. Many excellent books have been written about them but, on the whole, they have dealt only with the surviving imperial gardens and a selection of those of retired officials. Rarely are the fascinating courtyards and gardens of temples mentioned, nor the evocative enclosures of ancient burial grounds and imperial tombs - to say nothing of the public parks, botanical gardens and arboreta, most of which have sprung up since 1949." "In this book Peter Valder describes over 200 gardens in China which he has visited, including representatives of all types. In order to introduce them, he looks at how over the years Western visitors have perceived and come to understand Chinese gardens, and for each site provides notes on its location, history and plants." "Gardens in China contains over 500 colour photographs, many of them depicting gardens not previously illustrated in any Western publication, as well as reproductions of illustrations of historical interest."--Jacket.

Mapping Chengde : the Qing landscape enterprise / Philippe Forêt.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-202) and index.

The Great Qing at Home -- Hamlet and Imperial Residence -- Garden and Mountain Rhetoric -- The Jehol Frontier -- Capitals and Models -- Representations of Chengde -- Chengde Studies -- Place Name Concordance -- Qing Dynasty Emperors -- Waiba miao Temples -- The Kangxi Emperor's Vistas.

Summary: The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the mountains of Jehol. The site, which is on UNESCO's World Heritage List, combines the largest classical gardens in China with a unique series of grand monasteries in the Sino-Tibetan style. Mapping Chengde, the first scholarly publication in English on the Manchu summer capital, reveals how this unlikely architectural and landscape enterprise came to help forge a dynasty's multicultural identity and concretize its claims of political legitimacy. Using both visual and textual materials, the author explores the hidden dimensions of landscape, showing how geographical imagination shaped the aesthetics of Qing court culture while proposing a new interpretation of the mental universe that conceived one of the world's most remarkable examples of imperial architecture.

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