The Story of Chinese Landscape Design: External Forms and Internal Visions was written by Prof. Pao-Teh Han, one of the most respected of Taiwanese architects. Prof Han describes his book as simply an attempt at an interpretation of the culture of Chinese landscape gardens, in the hope that it would arouse the vast reading public in becoming interested in a deeper understanding of the subject. It is not, he continues, an academic thesis, nor is it a popular article, or a picture book, or a professional publication. Since there was no physical remains of Chinese landscape gardens prior to the Ching Dynasty, there was much reliance on written documents and works of art, and much of the text is formed from Prof. Han's conjectures and theories based upon his knowledge of the cultural environment. The initial chapter is A View of the Landscape Designing of Ancient China from the Shang to the Han Dynasty.
The following chapters include -
2. Fairy Tales and the Art of Chinese Landscape Designing
3. Taoism and the Art of Chinese Landscape Designing
4. The Lo-yang Era
5. The Kiang-nan Era
6. The Making of a Garden: The Birth of a Theory of Landscape Designing
7. Gardens of the Ching Emperors
8. Gardens of the Coastal Mercantile Culture - The Lin Garden of Panciao
Two Appendices, The Basin Ponds of the Tang Dynasty and The Garden in the Novel Dream of the Red Chamber, are also provided.
Price: $28.50
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