The Gardens of China: History, Art, and Meanings = [Chung-Hua Yuan Lin]

by Edwin T. Morris

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684179598
• ISBN13: 9780684179599
• Release Date: October 1983
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.

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How to Understand Chinese Gardens!

Edwin Morris, a botanist and scholar of Chinese culture, has written this methodical book to explain the Chinese gardens in their varieties, outlay, floral content and localities. It is an easy to read book, interspered with historical stories and a personal touch, which relate this ancient horticultural art to the modern times. There are many pictures for the readers to understand Morris' explanations. Art, poetry and culture are discussed in this excellent book that delights not only the gardener seeking the aesthetic, but the scholar, seeking solace and harmony with nature. Morris has extensively visited the gardens in China, and was a consultant in the installation of the Chinese Garden, Suzhou style, in the Metropolitan Museum of New York.