Mapping Chengde : : The Qing Landscape Enterprise / / Philippe Foret.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Foret, Philippe,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Author's Notes --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. The Great Qing at Home --; Chapter 3. Hamlet and Imperial Residence --; Chapter 4. Garden and Mountain Rhetoric --; Chapter 5. The Jehol Frontier --; Chapter 6. Capitals and Models --; Chapter 7. Representations of Chengde --; Chapter 8. Chengde Studies --; Appendix 1. Place Name Concordance --; Appendix 2. Qing Dynasty Emperors --; Appendix 3. Waiba Miao Temples --; Appendix 4. The Kangxi Emperor'S Vistas --; Appendix 5. Chronology of Chengde --; Notes --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824863517; 9783110564143; 9783110663259
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824863517
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Philippe Foret.

The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the mountains of Jehol. This volume, 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.