Ideas of Chinese Gardens: Western Accounts, 1300-1860

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2016

Ideas of Chinese Gardens

Western Accounts, 1300-1860

Edited by: Ursula Weiser

In the series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292084

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About this book

An annotated collection of essential texts written by European observers from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries, Ideas of Chinese Gardens chronicles the evolution of Western perceptions of gardens of China, from curiosity to admiration and ultimately to rejection, echoing the changes in European attitudes toward China.

Author / Editor information

Bianca Maria Rinaldi is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Turin.

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"By bringing essential sources together in one book, Bianca Maria Rinaldi facilitates comparisons among them, making possible a more nuanced understanding of the development of European ideas about Chinese gardens over time."—David Porter, author of The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England

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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Marco Polo (c. 1254–1324) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Chapter 2. Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Chapter 3. Álvaro Semedo (1585/1586–1658) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter 4. Johannes Nieuhof (1618–72) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter 5. Jean-François Gerbillon (1654–1707) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Chapter 6. Louis Le Comte (1655–1728) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Chapter 7. Jean-François Gerbillon (1654–1707) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 8. Matteo Ripa (1682–1746) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter 9. Jean-Denis Attiret (1702–68) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 10. William Chambers (1723–96) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
Chapter 11. Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718–93) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Chapter 12. John Bell (1691–1763) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Chapter 13. Michel Benoist (1715–74) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Chapter 14. François Bourgeois (1723–92) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Chapter 15. Carl Gustav Ekeberg (1716–84) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Chapter 16. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727–80) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
Chapter 17. Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718–93) or Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727–80) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
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Chapter 20. George Leonard Staunton (1737–1801) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Chapter 21. André Everard van Braam Houckgeest (1739–1801) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Chapter 22. John Barrow (1764–1848) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Chapter 23. George Macartney (1737–1806) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Chapter 24. Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (1759–1845) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Chapter 25. Félix Renouard de Sainte-Croix (1767–1840) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Chapter 26. Peter Dobell (1772–1852) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Chapter 27. James Main (c. 1765–1846) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Chapter 28. John Francis Davis (1795–1890) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
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Chapter 30. Osmond Tiffany, Jr. (1823–95) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Chapter 31. Henry Charles Sirr (1807–72) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Chapter 32. Robert Fortune (1813–80) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Chapter 33. Charles Taylor (1819–97) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Chapter 34. Robert Swinhoe (1836–77) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Chapter 35. Garnet Joseph Wolseley (1833–1913) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Appendix. William Chambers (1723–96) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 384
Illustrations
- Other: 23 illus.
Keywords: Architecture; Asian Studies; Cultural Studies; Fine Art; Garden History; Middle Eastern Studies; African Studies; Asian Studies; Literature

eBook

Published: December 4, 2015
ISBN: 9780812292084