Ideas of Chinese Gardens : Western Accounts, 1300-1860 /
Europeans may be said to have first encountered the Chinese garden in Marco Polo's narrative of his travels through the Mongol Empire and his years at the court of Kublai Khan. His account of a man-made lake abundant with fish, a verdant green hill lush with trees, raised walkways, and a pletho...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Penn studies in landscape architecture
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