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- catalog abstract "Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to be wholly based on contemporary Chinese sources, this innovative, beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-making in Ming Dynasty China (1368-1644) firmly in the social and cultural history of the day. Who owned gardens? Who visited them? How were they represented in words, in paintings, and in visual culture generally, and what meanings did these representations hold at different levels of Chinese society? How did the discourse of gardens intersect with other discourses such as those of aesthetics, agronomy, geomancy, and botany? By examining the gardens of the city of Suzhou from a number of different angles, Craig Clunas provides a rich picture of a complex cultural phenomenon, one that was of crucial importance to the self-fashioning of the Ming elite. Drawing on a wide range of recent work in cultural theory, the author provides for the first time a historical and materialist account of Chinese garden culture, and replaces broad generalizations and orientalist fantasy with a convincing picture of the garden's role in social life.".
- catalog alternative "Garden culture in Ming dynasty China".
- catalog contributor b10435194.
- catalog coverage "China Civilization 960-1644.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to be wholly based on contemporary Chinese sources, this innovative, beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-making in Ming Dynasty China (1368-1644) firmly in the social and cultural history of the day. Who owned gardens? Who visited them? How were they represented in words, in paintings, and in visual culture generally, and what meanings did these representations hold at different levels of Chinese society? How did the discourse of gardens intersect with other discourses such as those of aesthetics, agronomy, geomancy, and botany? By examining the gardens of the city of Suzhou from a number of different angles, Craig Clunas provides a rich picture of a complex cultural phenomenon, one that was of crucial importance to the self-fashioning of the Ming elite. Drawing on a wide range of recent work in cultural theory, the author provides for the first time a historical and materialist account of Chinese garden culture, and replaces broad generalizations and orientalist fantasy with a convincing picture of the garden's role in social life.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-237) and index.".
- catalog description "The fruitful garden -- The aesthetic garden -- The gardens of the Wen family -- The represented garden -- The landscape of number.".
- catalog extent "240 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0822317958 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0822318008 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Envisioning Asia".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Durham : Duke University Press,".
- catalog spatial "China Civilization 960-1644.".
- catalog spatial "China".
- catalog spatial "China.".
- catalog subject "712/.0951 20".
- catalog subject "Gardens, Chinese China.".
- catalog subject "Historic gardens China.".
- catalog subject "Landscape architecture China History.".
- catalog subject "Landscape gardening China History.".
- catalog subject "SB466.C5 C6 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "The fruitful garden -- The aesthetic garden -- The gardens of the Wen family -- The represented garden -- The landscape of number.".
- catalog title "Fruitful sites : garden culture in Ming dynasty China / Craig Clunas.".
- catalog title "Garden culture in Ming dynasty China".
- catalog type "text".