About this title: 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 Ming 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 ...
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Edition: Black Stripe Along Top Fore-Edge
Binding: Paperback. No Markings In Text
Publisher: Duke University Press, Durham, NC
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780822317951ISBN:0822317958
Description: Very Good to Near Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 240 pp. This edition is smythe sewn, the pages being sewn in signatures. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. read more
Binding: Softcover.
Publisher: Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780822317951ISBN:0822317958
Description: VG. Based on contemporary sources, book discuss gardens in Ming Dynasty China (1368-1644) and places them in the social and cultural context of that time. Cream-colored illus. wraps; 240 pp.; 30 bw, 18 color illus. read more
Description: Good. 0822317958 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
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