[PDF.49jc] Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)

Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)

[PDF.yn93] Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)

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 |  2014-11-05 |  2014-11-05 | File type: PDF

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||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent book, reaches into both heart and mind...|By Customer|`Place and memory' came to me while conducting research on a related subject. Out of the pile of books about the history of late imperial China on my desk, it stands out as an unusually excellent read. Though under strict orders to `read just one chapter', I went on and am now deep into the whole book. I could not| ||"This book presents the complex history of a Beijing garden built by a Manchu prince in the nineteenth century. . . . Its story includes more than 100 years of classical artistic vision, political struggle, and suffering, including the 1860 Anglo-French war i

The Singing Crane Garden in northwest Beijing has a history dense with classical artistic vision, educational experimentation, political struggle, and tragic suffering. Built by the Manchu prince Mianyu in the mid-nineteenth century, the garden was intended to serve as a refuge from the clutter of daily life near the Forbidden City. In 1860, during the Anglo-French war in China, the garden was destroyed. One hundred years later, in the 1960s, the garden served as the ...

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