The imperial gardens were elegant resorts for all forms of entertainment. Rapid developments in Chinese society, the economy and the arts lent great impetus to the construction of elaborate and elegant imperial parks, while the technical virtuosity of the waterways and a preference for exotically formed rockeries produced enchanting and constantly changing man-made worlds. The genre reached its zenith with the uanmingyuan garden, generally accepted as one of the finest of its kind ever created in China.
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"Zwei prachtvolle Bände, mit aufwendigen Plänen und Fotografien reich geschmückt ... In der Reihe 'Ancient Chinese Architecture' weist Architekt und Gartenhistoriker Cheng Liyao den Pfad durch imposante 'Private Gardens' und atemberaubende 'Imperial Gardens'. Er erzählt die abwechslungsreiche Gartengeschichte Chinas und erläutert dazu auch die komplizierten Gartenarchitekturen, die natürlich alle ihre Bedeutung haben ... " (Der Standard)
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