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Title Entangled landscapes : early modern China and Europe / edited by Yue Zhuang & Andrea M. Riemenschnitter
Published Singapore : NUS Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Introduction: Entangles landscapes: a new research paradigm / Yue Zhuang and Andrea M. Riemenschnitter -- 1. Western orientals?: the theme of the Tartar in the Elizabethan discourse on Ireland / Mark Dorrian -- 2. Fear and pride: Sir William Chambers' Dissertation on oriental gardening, Burke's Sublime and China / Yue Zhuang -- 3. Layered landscape: textual and cartographical representations of Hangzhou's West lake, 16th-18th centuries / Roland Altenburger -- 4. Copperplates controversy: Matteo Ripa's Thirty-six view of Jehol and the Chinese rites controversy / Michele Fatica and Yue Zhuang -- 5. The "true wonder" in emperor Qianlong's garden labyrinths / Hui Zou -- 6. "Retreats or attacks?": scholars, poets and the politics of landscape gardening in China and the West / Stephen Bann -- 7. Culture and nature: human landscapes in Chinese and European imaginations / David E. Cooper -- 8. Postscript: Contemporary Chinese landscape aesthetics between crisis and creativity / Andrea M. Riemenschnitter
Summary The exchange of landscape practice between China and Europe from 1500-1800 is an important chapter in art history. While the material forms of the outcome of this exchange, like jardin anglo-chinois and Européenerie are well documented, this book moves further to examine the role of the exchange in identity formation in early modern China and Europe. Proposing the new paradigm of "entangled landscapes", drawing from the concept of "entangled histories", this book looks at landscape design, cartography, literature, philosophy and material culture of the period. Challenging simplistic, binary treatments of the movements of "influences" between China and Europe, Entangled Landscapes reveals how landscape exchanges entailed complex processes of appropriation, crossover and transformation, through which Chinese and European identities were formed. Exploring these complex processes via three themes--empire building, mediators' constraints, and aesthetic negotiations, this work breaks new ground in landscape and East-West studies.-- Publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-310) and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Europa gnd
China Zusammenstellung gnd
Subject Landscape design -- China -- History
Landscape design -- Europe -- History
Art -- China -- History
Art -- Europe -- History
HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
Art
International relations
Landscape design
Landschaftsbild
SUBJECT China -- Relations -- Europe
Europe -- Relations -- China
Subject China
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Zhuang, Yue, 1976- editor.
Riemenschnitter, Andrea, editor
ISBN 9789813250369
9813250364