Paradise Lost

The Imperial Garden Yuanming Yuan

AvYoung-tsu Wong

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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This book is aimed at readers and researchers who are interested in Chinese garden architecture, the rise and fall of Yuanming Yuan and the history of the Qing dynasty. Young-tsu Wong’s engaging writing style brings "the garden of perfect brightness" to life as he leads readers on a grand tour of its architecture and history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-04-30
Mått:155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt:365 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:China Academic Library
Antal sidor:222
Förlag:Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:9789811094682

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Landskapsarkitektur inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Wong Young-tsu, Ph.D. of History at the University of Washington, Seattle, has been Professor of History at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, visiting scholar at the Australian National University, etc. He is now Director of the Humanities Center of the ‘National Central University’ (Taiwan) and Honorary Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.Experienced historian and noted professor, editor-in-chief of the series Studies in Modern Chinese History; he has published many popular books in terms of the study of Chinese history, such as Search for Modern Nationalism: Zhang Binglin and Revolutionary China (Oxford), Beyond Confucian China and etc.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction.- Part I Architecture.- Provenance.- Disposition.- Expansion.- Part II History.- Rise.- Structure and Function.- Royal Daily Life.- The Sacking.- Repairs and the Final Blows.- Epilogue.