Ideas of Chinese Gardens : : Western Accounts, 1300-1860 /

Ideas of Chinese Gardens : : Western Accounts, 1300-1860 / / ed. by Bianca Maria Rinaldi.

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Europeans may be said to have first encountered the Chinese garden in Marco Polo's narrative of his travels through the Mongol Empire and his years at the court of Kublai Khan. His account of a man-made lake abundant with fish, a verdant green hill lush with trees, raised walkways, and a pletho...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Rinaldi, Bianca Maria,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]
©2016
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 23 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324)
  • Chapter 2. Matteo Ricci (1552-1610)
  • Chapter 3. Álvaro Semedo (1585/1586-1658)
  • Chapter 4. Johannes Nieuhof (1618-72)
  • Chapter 5. Jean-François Gerbillon (1654-1707)
  • Chapter 6. Louis Le Comte (1655-1728)
  • Chapter 7. Jean-François Gerbillon (1654-1707)
  • Chapter 8. Matteo Ripa (1682-1746)
  • Chapter 9. Jean-Denis Attiret (1702-68)
  • Chapter 10. William Chambers (1723-96)
  • Chapter 11. Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718-93)
  • Chapter 12. John Bell (1691-1763)
  • Chapter 13. Michel Benoist (1715-74)
  • Chapter 14. François Bourgeois (1723-92)
  • Chapter 15. Carl Gustav Ekeberg (1716-84)
  • Chapter 16. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727-80)
  • Chapter 17. Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718-93) or Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727-80)
  • Chapter 18. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727-80)
  • Chapter 19. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727-80)
  • Chapter 20. George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801)
  • Chapter 21. André Everard van Braam Houckgeest (1739-1801)
  • Chapter 22. John Barrow (1764-1848)
  • Chapter 23. George Macartney (1737-1806)
  • Chapter 24. Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (1759-1845)
  • Chapter 25. Félix Renouard de Sainte-Croix (1767-1840)
  • Chapter 26. Peter Dobell (1772-1852)
  • Chapter 27. James Main (c. 1765-1846)
  • Chapter 28. John Francis Davis (1795-1890)
  • Chapter 29. Robert Fortune (1813-80)
  • Chapter 30. Osmond Tiffany, Jr. (1823-95)
  • Chapter 31. Henry Charles Sirr (1807-72)
  • Chapter 32. Robert Fortune (1813-80)
  • Chapter 33. Charles Taylor (1819-97)
  • Chapter 34. Robert Swinhoe (1836-77)
  • Chapter 35. Garnet Joseph Wolseley (1833-1913)
  • Appendix. William Chambers (1723-96)
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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