The classical gardens of Shanghai /

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Author / Creator:	Bryant, Shelly, author.
Imprint:	Hong Kong : HKU Press, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 142 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	RAS China in Shanghai RAS China in Shanghai series of China Monographs.
Subject:	Gardens, Chinese -- China -- Shanghai -- History. Gardens, Chinese. China -- Shanghai. Electronic books. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11406889

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ISBN:	9789888313983 9888313983 9888208810 9789888208814
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-137) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	In The Classical Gardens of Shanghai, Shelly Bryant looks at five of Shanghai's remaining classical gardens through their origins, changing fortunes, restorations, and links to a wider Chinese aesthetic. Shanghai's classical gardens are as much text as space; they exist in art, poetry, and literature as much as in stone, rock, and earth. But these gardens have not remained static entities. Rather, they have been remodeled constantly since their inception. This book reflects this process within the constancy of traditional Chinese horticulture and reveals Shanghai's remaining classical gardens as places representing wealth and social status, social and dynastic shifts, through falling family fortunes and political revolutions to search for a recovery of China's ancient culture in the modern day.
Other form:	Print version: Bryant, Shelly. Classical gardens of shanghai. [Place of publication not identified] : Hong Kong University Pres, 2016 9888208810

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