LEADER 06420nam 2200865 450 001 9910797714403321 005 20210507001147.0 010 $a0-8122-9208-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812292084 035 $a(CKB)3710000000529443 035 $a(EBL)4321864 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001582667 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16259208 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001582667 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14002660 035 $a(PQKB)11234909 035 $a(OCoLC)932050735 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46662 035 $a(DE-B1597)452779 035 $a(OCoLC)979628586 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812292084 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4321864 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11149352 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL877817 035 $a(OCoLC)935259524 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4321864 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000529443 100 $a20160210h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aIdeas of Chinese gardens $eWestern accounts, 1300-1860 /$fedited by Bianca Maria Rinaldi 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2016. 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (385 p.) 225 1 $aPenn Studies in Landscape Architecture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-4763-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Marco Polo (c. 1254?1324) --$tChapter 2. Matteo Ricci (1552?1610) --$tChapter 3. Álvaro Semedo (1585/1586?1658) --$tChapter 4. Johannes Nieuhof (1618?72) --$tChapter 5. Jean-François Gerbillon (1654?1707) --$tChapter 6. Louis Le Comte (1655?1728) --$tChapter 7. Jean-François Gerbillon (1654?1707) --$tChapter 8. Matteo Ripa (1682?1746) --$tChapter 9. Jean-Denis Attiret (1702?68) --$tChapter 10. William Chambers (1723?96) --$tChapter 11. Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718?93) --$tChapter 12. John Bell (1691?1763) --$tChapter 13. Michel Benoist (1715?74) --$tChapter 14. François Bourgeois (1723?92) --$tChapter 15. Carl Gustav Ekeberg (1716?84) --$tChapter 16. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727?80) --$tChapter 17. Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718?93) or Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727?80) --$tChapter 18. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727?80) --$tChapter 19. Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727?80) --$tChapter 20. George Leonard Staunton (1737?1801) --$tChapter 21. André Everard van Braam Houckgeest (1739?1801) --$tChapter 22. John Barrow (1764?1848) --$tChapter 23. George Macartney (1737?1806) --$tChapter 24. Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (1759?1845) --$tChapter 25. Félix Renouard de Sainte-Croix (1767?1840) --$tChapter 26. Peter Dobell (1772?1852) --$tChapter 27. James Main (c. 1765?1846) --$tChapter 28. John Francis Davis (1795?1890) --$tChapter 29. Robert Fortune (1813?80) --$tChapter 30. Osmond Tiffany, Jr. (1823?95) --$tChapter 31. Henry Charles Sirr (1807?72) --$tChapter 32. Robert Fortune (1813?80) --$tChapter 33. Charles Taylor (1819?97) --$tChapter 34. Robert Swinhoe (1836?77) --$tChapter 35. Garnet Joseph Wolseley (1833?1913) --$tAppendix. William Chambers (1723?96) --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aEuropeans may be said to have first encountered the Chinese garden in Marco Polo's narrative of his travels through the Mongol Empire and his years at the court of Kublai Khan. His account of a man-made lake abundant with fish, a verdant green hill lush with trees, raised walkways, and a plethora of beasts and birds took root in the European imagination as the description of a kind of Eden. Beginning in the sixteenth century, permanent interaction between Europe and China took form, and Jesuit missionaries and travelers recorded in letters and memoirs their admiration of Chinese gardens for their seeming naturalness. In the eighteenth century, European taste for chinoiserie reached its height, and informed observers of the Far East discovered that sophisticated and codified design principles lay behind the apparent simplicity of the Chinese garden. The widespread appreciation of the eighteenth century gave way to rejection in the nineteenth, a result of tensions over practical concerns such as trade imbalances and symbolized by the destruction of the imperial park of Yuanming yuan by a joint Anglo-French military expedition. In Ideas of Chinese Gardens, Bianca Maria Rinaldi has gathered an unparalleled collection of westerners' accounts, many freshly translated and all expertly annotated, as well as images that would have accompanied the texts as they circulated in Europe. Representing a great diversity of materials and literary genres, Rinaldi's book includes more than thirty-five sources that span centuries, countries, languages, occupational biases, and political aims. By providing unmediated firsthand accounts of the testimony of these travelers and expatriates, Rinaldi illustrates how the Chinese garden was progressively lifted out of the realm of fantasy into something that could be compared with, and have an impact on, European traditions. 410 0$aPenn studies in landscape architecture. 606 $aGardens, Chinese$zChina$xHistory$vSources 606 $aGardens$zChina$xHistory$vSources 606 $aLandscape architecture$zChina$xHistory$vSources 606 $aAesthetics, Oriental 606 $aVoyages and travels$xHistory 606 $aTravelers' writings$xHistory 607 $aChina$xDescription and travel$xHistory$vSources 610 $aAfrican Studies. 610 $aArchitecture. 610 $aAsian Studies. 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aFine Art. 610 $aGarden History. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMiddle Eastern Studies. 615 0$aGardens, Chinese$xHistory 615 0$aGardens$xHistory 615 0$aLandscape architecture$xHistory 615 0$aAesthetics, Oriental. 615 0$aVoyages and travels$xHistory. 615 0$aTravelers' writings$xHistory. 676 $a712/.60951 686 $aLO 89425$qBSZ$2rvk 702 $aRinaldi$b Bianca Maria 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797714403321 996 $aIdeas of Chinese gardens$93791137 997 $aUNINA