From temples to garden estates and academies: landscape transformation of Suzhou during the 13th-16th centuries and beyond

"How did the temple-scape of Suzhou transform into garden-scape during the 13th to 16th centuries? This book investigates the landscape evolution of China during the Yuan-Ming socio-political transformation and provides a previously unrepresented Buddhist and hydraulic history of Chinese garden...

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Main Author: Mu, Pania Yanjie (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: New York London Routledge 2025
Series:Routledge research on gardens in history
DOI:10.4324/9781003387169
Online Access:Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003387169
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003387169
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Author Notes:Pania Yanjie Mu
Table of Contents:
  • Garden estates : transforming urban hydrology
  • Constructing the temple-scape
  • Converting temples into literati gardens
  • Converting temples into Confucian institutions
  • From Buddhist to gentry society.