Where Dragon Veins Meet

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Where Dragon Veins Meet

Author	: Stephen H. Whiteman
File Size	: 50,8 Mb
Publisher	: Unknown
Language	: English
Release Date	: 19 May 2024
ISBN	: 0295745800
Pages	: 0 pages

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Where Dragon Veins Meet by Stephen H. Whiteman Book PDF Summary

Inroduction: Historicizing the Early Qing Landscape -- Recovering the Kangxi Landscape. Excerpt from "Record of Traveling at the Invitation of the Emperor" by Zhang Yushu -- Reconstructing Kangxi -- Allegories of Empire. Mountain Veins -- "Record of the Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat" by the Kangxi Emperor -- Only Here in Rehe -- Space and Pictoriality. Painting and the Surveyed Site -- Paper Gardens -- The Metonymic Landscape. Touring the Rear Park -- Conclusion: The Landscape of the Emperor.

Where Dragon Veins Meet by Stephen H. Whiteman

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Where Dragon Veins Meet by Stephen H. Whiteman

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