Pania Yanjie Mu

From Temples to Garden Estates and Academies (eBook, PDF)

Landscape Transformation of Suzhou During the 13th-16th Centuries and Beyond

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Produktbeschreibung

How did the temple-scape of Suzhou transform into garden-scape during the 13th to 16th centuries? This book investigates the landscape evolution of China during the Yuan-Ming socio-political transformation and provides a previously unrepresented Buddhist and hydraulic history of Chinese gardens.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040305607
• Artikelnr.: 72797521

Autorenporträt

Pania Yanjie Mu is a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University, Germany, and co-founder of P. M. Architects. She received her PhD from the Faculty of Architecture, the University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Garden Estates: Transforming Urban Hydrology 2.
Constructing the Temple-scape 3. Converting Temples into Literati Gardens
4. Converting Temples into Confucian Institutions 5. From Buddhist to
Gentry Society. Conclusion: A New Garden History: Hydro-Social
Transformation Illuminated by 3D Modelling and GIS Mapping