9780884024651-0884024652-The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature (Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks Texts in Garden and Landscape Studies)

The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature (Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks Texts in Garden and Landscape Studies)

ISBN-13: 9780884024651
ISBN-10: 0884024652
Author: Alison Hardie, Duncan M. Campbell
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Format: Hardcover 792 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780884024651
ISBN-10: 0884024652
Author: Alison Hardie, Duncan M. Campbell
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Format: Hardcover 792 pages

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The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature (Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks Texts in Garden and Landscape Studies) (ISBN-13: 9780884024651 and ISBN-10: 0884024652), written by authors Alison Hardie, Duncan M. Campbell, was published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Landscape (Architecture) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature (Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks Texts in Garden and Landscape Studies) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Landscape books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.66.

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The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature is the first comprehensive collection in English of over two millennia of Chinese writing about gardens and landscape. Its contents range from early poems using plant imagery to represent virtue and vice, through works from many dynasties on both private and imperial gardens, to twentieth-century prose descriptions of the reconstruction of a historic Suzhou garden. Most passages have been translated for this publication. A number of previously published translations, some of which are now hard to find, are also included.

The anthology is divided into nine chapters: five chronological, covering the pre-Qin period to the Qing dynasty; and four thematic, on rocks and flora, the evolution of a single site (Canglang Pavilion in Suzhou), gardens of the mind, and the interplay between garden and landscape as seen through Mount Tai and West Lake. An introductory essay positions Chinese gardens and garden literature in their cultural context. Care has been taken to translate plant names as accurately as possible given the limitations of the sources, and the anthology includes a glossary of translated names, Chinese names, and binomials.

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