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Ideas of Chinese GardensWestern Accounts, 1300-1860
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Ursula WeiserBianca Maria Rinaldi

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 plethora of beasts and birds took root in the European imagination as the description of a kind of Eden. Beg…

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1 online resource (384 pages)
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