Jesuit Garden in Beijing and Early Modern Chinese Culture

Zou (architectural history, theory, and design; U. of Florida) shares insights from his research during the past decade in five essays. After a theoretical and historical introduction to the Chinese garden, he considers the Chinese garden and the concept of the virtue of round brightness, the concept of the vision of jing, Western linear the perspective, and the concept of the line method. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)