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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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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New York London
Routledge
2025
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| Series: | Routledge research on gardens in history
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| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003387169 |
| Online Access: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003387169 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003387169 |
| 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.