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Fruitful Sites : Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China by Craig Clunas (1996, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-100822317958

ISBN-139780822317951

eBay Product ID (ePID)702052

Product Key Features

Number of Pages240 Pages

Publication NameFruitful Sites : Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China

LanguageEnglish

SubjectRegional / General, Landscape, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General, Asia / China, Garden Design

Publication Year1996

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaTravel, Architecture, Gardening, History

AuthorCraig Clunas

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight24.1 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN95-044802

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal712/.0951

SynopsisGardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to be wholly based on contemporary Chinese sources, this innovative, beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-making in Ming dynasty China (1368-1644) firmly in the social and cultural history of the day. Who owned Ming gardens? Who visited them? How were they represented in words, in paintings, and in visual culture generally, and what meanings did these representations hold at different levels of Chinese society? How did the discourse of gardens intersect with other discourses such as those of aesthetics, agronomy, geomancy, and botany? By examining the gardens of the city of Suzhou from a number of different angles, Craig Clunas provides a rich picture of a complex cultural phenomenon--one that was of crucial importance to the self-fashioning of the Ming elite. Drawing on a wide range of recent work in cultural theory, the author provides for the first time a historical and materialist account of Chinese garden culture, and replaces broad generalizations and orientalist fantasy with a convincing picture of the garden's role in social life. Fruitful Sites will appeal to all students of China's cultural history, to students of garden history from any part of the world, to art historians, and to readers engaged in Asian and cultural studies.

LC Classification NumberSB466.C5C6 1996