Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden

by Vera Schwarcz

The Singing Crane Garden in northwest Beijing has a history dense with classical artistic vision, educational experimentation, political struggle, and tragic suffering. Built by the Manchu prince Mianyu in the mid-nineteenth century, the garden was intended to serve as a refuge from the clutter of daily life near the Forbidden City. In 1860, during the Anglo-French war in China, the garden was destroyed. One hundred years later, in the 1960s, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812241002
• ISBN13: 9780812241006
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"