Selected Illustrations of Chinese Historical Gardens - (Volume 1)

Author: Zhao Xueqian
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This is a pictorial collection of gardens in China's history. The selected texts cover a range of documents related to Chinese gardens from the pre-Qin, Han, Wei-Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, and Tang periods (including Southern Tang). The literary genres include classics, historical records, odes, prose, and poetry, among others. Based on extensive reading and comparison, the editor has carefully selected nearly 160 valuable documents on this subject and compiled and annotated them. The texts in this book are reliable in version, and the annotations are concise, systematically reflecting the historical process of the origin, formation, development, and perfection of classical Chinese gardens.