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Mapping Chengde : the Qing landscape enterprise /
The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the mountains of Jehol. The site, which is on UNESCO's World Heritage List, combines the largest classical gardens in China with a unique series of grand monasteries in the Sino-Ti...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
©2000.
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| Series: | Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the mountains of Jehol. The site, which is on UNESCO's World Heritage List, combines the largest classical gardens in China with a unique series of grand monasteries in the Sino-Tibetan style. Mapping Chengde, the first scholarly publication in English on the Manchu summer capital, reveals how this unlikely architectural and landscape enterprise came to help forge a dynasty's multicultural identity and concretize its claims of political legitimacy. Using both visual and textual materials, the author explores the hidden dimensions of landscape, showing how geographical imagination shaped the aesthetics of Qing court culture while proposing a new interpretation of the mental universe that conceived one of the world's most remarkable examples of imperial architecture. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 209 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index. |
| ISBN: | 058548192X 9780585481920 9780824863517 0824863518 0824822935 9780824822934 |