 | Ideas of Chinese Gardens: Western Accounts, 1300-1860 Subjects: Gardens Chinese -- China -- History -- Sources; Gardens -- China -- History -- Sources; Landscape architecture -- China -- History -- Sources; China -- Description and travel -- History -- Sources; Aesthetics Oriental; Voyages and travels -- History; Tr; 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. Bianca Maria Rinaldi is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Turin. |
