Ideas Of Chinese Gardens: Western Accounts, 1300-1860 (Penn Studies In Landscape Architecture)

An annotated collection of essential texts written by European observers from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries, Ideas of Chinese Gardens chronicles the evolution of Western perceptions of gardens of China, from curiosity to admiration and ultimately to rejection, echoing the changes in European attitudes toward China.

• | Author: Bianca Maria Rinaldi
• | Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 08, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 384 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Architecture
• | ISBN-10: 0812247639
• | ISBN-13: 9780812247633