Bryant, Shelly. The Classical Gardens of Shanghai. Honk Kong : Hong Kong university press, 2016. 156 p. (“RAS China in Shanghai”). ISBN : 978-9-8882-0881-4
In The Classical Gardens of Shanghai, Shelly Bryant looks at five of Shanghai’s remaining classical gardens through their origins, changing fortunes, restorations, and links to a wider Chinese aesthetic. Shanghai’s classical gardens are as much text as space; they exist in art, poetry, and literature as much as in stone, rock, and earth. But these gardens have not remained static entities. Rather, they have been remodelled constantly since their inception. This book reflects this process within the constancy of traditional Chinese horticulture and reveals Shanghai’s remaining classical gardens as places representing wealth and social status, social and dynastic shifts, through falling family fortunes and political revolutions to search for a recovery of China’s ancient culture in the modern day.
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Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, EHESS, Paris, France
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Monique Abud (1 avril 2016). The Classical Gardens of Shanghai. ChinElectrodoc. Consulté le 15 octobre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mqup
