A theoretical and historical introduction to the Chinese garden -- The Chinese garden and the concept of the virtue of round brightness -- The Chinese garden and the concept of the vision of jing -- The Chinese gGarden and the Western linear perspective -- The Chinese garden and the concept of the line-method -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Kangxi's record of the Garden of Uninhibited Spring -- Appendix 2: Kangxi's record of the Mountain Hamlet for Summer Coolness -- Appendix 3: Qianlong's later record of the Mountain Hamlet for Summer Coolness -- Appendix 4: Qianlong's record of the Village of Ten-Thousand Springs -- Appendix 5: Qianlong's record of Kunming Lake by Longevity Hill -- Appendix 6: Qianlong's record of the Garden of Clear Ripples on Longevity Hill -- Appendix 7: Qianlong's record of the Best Spring of China on Jade-Spring Hill -- Appendix 8: Qianlong's record of the Garden of Tranquil Pleasure.

"本書選擇與康熙直接有關的歷史事件, 並著重反映康熙在事件中的思想, 活動和作用, 本書包括少年天子, 智鬥權臣;統一台灣, 南紀安流;親征大漠, 平噶爾丹等"--Natl Lib. China note.

Mario Cams 康言: Early Qing geographical surveys (1708-1716) as a case of collaboration between the Jesuits and the Kangxi Court.
Claudia von Collani 柯蘭易: The Kangxi Emperor, Charles-Thomas Maillard de Tournon and Matteo Ricci.
Translation of the Journal of Lucas Augustinius Ly (Li Shiyin 李世音, Chinese Catholic Priest), Part II: 1750-1751, translated by Joseph Ruellen, M.E.P. & annotated by Robert Entenmann 鄢華陽.

Local access dig.pdf. [Tingxun geyan 庭訓格言 (1730).pdf]

Contents keywords: Imperial household--Banners and bondservants--House of Ts'ao (Cao) 曹 -- Ts'ao Yin in Peking--Soochow society--Peking and Soochow, poetry and society--Office of Textile Commissioner (Zhizaoju 織造局)--Subsidiary income--Customs houses--Stabilization of rice prices--Execution of Imperial commissions--Southern tours--K'ang-hsi Emperors six southern tours--Jesuits and the southern tours--Cao Yin and the southern tours--Southern tours in the Dream of the Red Chamber--Cao Yin and the Complete Tang Poems--Liang-huai Salt Administration 兩淮鹽法--Lianghuai Salt taxes, Salt Censors--Salt merchants--Cao Yin, Li Xu 李煦 as Lianghuai Salt censors--Cao Yin as the Emperor's secret informant--Cao Yin's Palace Memorials--Officials, rumors, robbers--Examination Hall Case of 1711 and the mutual impeachment of Gali 噶禮 and Chang Po-hsing (Zhang Boxing 張伯行 )--Fall of the House of Cao--Illness and death--Son Cao Yong 曹顒 --Adopted son Cao Fu 曹頫 --Appendixes: Raw silk prices, 1712-1726--Kiangsu rice prices, 1706-1722--New sample rice yields, 1715-1722--Authors hypothesis on the Dream of the Red Chamber (Hongloumeng 紅樓夢).