Subject: Gardens, Chinese--England

Seeds of a different Eden : Chinese gardening ideas and a new English aesthetic ideal
AuthorLiu Yu 劉豫
PlaceColumbia, SC
PublisherUniversity of South Carolina Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberPR129.C6 L58 2008
Descriptionx, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
NoteSeeds of a different Eden : Chinese gardening ideas and a new English aesthetic ideal / Yu Liu.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-200) and index.
Name discrepancy: Liu Yu 劉豫 is used in SWCRJ no.33, while LC auth. rec. gives Liu Yu with two different "yu" characters: 劉宇 and 劉瑜], and date 1955-

Introduction : Beyond Walpole and Chinoiserie -- The impetus for change : Chinese Sharawadgi and English horticultural naturalism -- The ambiguous contrast : the Oriental Tian (Heaven) and the Occidental Zhu (Deus) -- In the name of the ancients : Alexander Pope's iconoclastic georgic -- Landscape and freedom : Joseph Addison's affinity with nature -- The call of the wild : Shaftesbury's revolution of aesthetics and ethics -- The paradigmatic shift : the far eastern influence on western modernity.

ISBN1570037698 ; 9781570037696
LCCN2008024035