| Author | Liu Yu 劉豫 |
| Place | Columbia, SC |
| Publisher | University of South Carolina Press |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Edition | |
| Language | English |
| Type | Book |
| Series | |
| Shelf | Hallway Cases |
| Call Number | PR129.C6 L58 2008 |
| Description | x, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Note | Seeds 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. |
| ISBN | 1570037698 ; 9781570037696 |
| LCCN | 2008024035 |
