The essay explores the significant transformation in perceptions of the Chinese garden on the basis of its botanical quality and plant arrangement, as reflected in the accounts of Western travelers during the long eighteenth century, in the context of a shifting aesthetic and political interest in (and understanding of) China as an empire.
Weeping Willows and Dwarfed Trees: Plants in Chinese Gardens under Western Eyes / Rinaldi, BIANCA MARIA - In: The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century / Yota Batsaki, Sarah Burke Cahalan, and Anatole Tchikine. - STAMPA. - Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2016. - ISBN 9780884024163. - pp. 73-92
Weeping Willows and Dwarfed Trees: Plants in Chinese Gardens under Western Eyes
RINALDI, BIANCA MARIA
2016
Abstract
The essay explores the significant transformation in perceptions of the Chinese garden on the basis of its botanical quality and plant arrangement, as reflected in the accounts of Western travelers during the long eighteenth century, in the context of a shifting aesthetic and political interest in (and understanding of) China as an empire.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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