A Jesuit Garden in Beijing and Early Modern Chinese Culture

by Hui Zou

In this volume, Hui Zou analyzes historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing, constructed during the Qing dynasty. Designed and built in the late eighteenth century by Italian and French Jesuits, the garden described in this book was a wonderland of multistoried buildings, fountains, labyrinths, and geometrical hills. It even...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557535833
• ISBN13: 9781557535832
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"