Mapping Chengde
The Qing Landscape Enterprise
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Word Count
52,250 words, Guess
Page Count
209 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8161526M
- ISBN-139780824822934
- ISBN-100824822935
- OCLC Control Number42976861
- OCLC Control Numbermappingchengdeqi00fore
and 2 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99088190
- Goodreads936623
Classifications
- LCCDS796.C49 F67 2000
Description
The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the mountains of Jehol. The site, which is on UNESCO's World Heritage List, combines the largest classical gardens in China with a unique series of grand monasteries in the Sino-Tibetan style. Mapping Chengde, the first scholarly publication in English on the Manchu summer capital, reveals how this unlikely architectural and landscape enterprise came to help forge a dynasty's multicultural identity and concretize its claims of political legitimacy. Using both visual and textual materials, the author explores the hidden dimensions of landscape, showing how geographical imagination shaped the aesthetics of Qing court culture while proposing a new interpretation of the mental universe that conceived one of the world's most remarkable examples of imperial architecture.
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