Main entry:

Forêt, Philippe, 1957-

Title & Author:

Mapping Chengde : the Qing landscape enterprise / Philippe Forêt.

Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2000.

Description:

xviii, 209 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.
The Great Qing at Home -- Hamlet and Imperial Residence -- Garden and Mountain Rhetoric -- The Jehol Frontier -- Capitals and Models -- Representations of Chengde -- Chengde Studies -- Place Name Concordance -- Qing Dynasty Emperors -- Waiba miao Temples -- The Kangxi Emperor's Vistas.
Also issued online.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0824819802 (alk. paper)
9780824819804 (alk. paper)
0824822935 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780824822934 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780585481920
058548192X

Subject:

Civilización China Chengde.
Civilization.
Qing Dynasty (China)
Geschichte
Qingdynastie
Zivilisation
Civilization China Chengde.
Geschichte 1644-1911.
Chengde (China) History.
Chengde (China) Civilization.
China History Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
Chengde (China) Historia.
Chine Histoire 1644-1912 (Dynastie des Qing)
China.
China Chengde.
Chengde
Chengde (Chine) Histoire.
Chine 1644-1912 (Dynastie mandchoue)
Civilization China Chengde 1640-1920.
Landscapes (environments) China Chengde.
Royal palaces China Chengde 1700-1780.
Gardens China Chengde 1700-1780.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212404
Call No.: DS796.C49 F6 2000
Status: Available