A Jesuit garden in Beijing and early modern Chinese culture, Hui Zou
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A Jesuit garden in Beijing and early modern Chinese culture, Hui Zou
Language
eng
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Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
A Jesuit garden in Beijing and early modern Chinese culture
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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Hui Zou
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Comparative cultural studies
Summary
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 included an open-air theater. Through detailed examination of historical literature and representations, Zou analyzes the ways in which the Jesuits accommodated their design within the Chinese cultural context. He shows how an especially important element of their approach was the application of a linear perspective-the "line-method"-to create the jing, the Chinese concept of the bounded bright view of a garden scene. Hui Zou's book demonstrates how Jesuit metaphysics fused with Chinese cosmology and broadens our understanding of cultural and religious encounters in early Chinese modernity. It presents an intriguing reflection on the interaction between Western metaphysics and the poetical tradition of Chinese culture. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students in a variety of fields, including literature, philosophy, architecture, landscape and urban studies, and East-West comparative cultural studies
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adult
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- Kangxi, Emperor of China, 1654-1722
- China -- Civilization -- 1644-1912
- Historic gardens -- China -- Beijing
- Electronic books
- Gardens -- China -- Beijing -- Design -- History -- 18th century
- Landscape gardening -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 18th century
- Qianlong, Emperor of China, 1711-1799
- Yuan Ming Yuan (Beijing, China) -- History
- Gardens, European -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 18th century
- Jesuits -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 18th century
- Gardens + Social aspects -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 18th century
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- Kangxi, Emperor of China, 1654-1722
- China -- Civilization -- 1644-1912
- Historic gardens -- China -- Beijing
- Electronic books
- Gardens -- China -- Beijing -- Design -- History -- 18th century
- Landscape gardening -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 18th century
- Qianlong, Emperor of China, 1711-1799
- Yuan Ming Yuan (Beijing, China) -- History
- Gardens, European -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 18th century
- Jesuits -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 18th century
- Gardens + Social aspects -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 18th century
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- Author1