Thirty-Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor's Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints

by Yu Shen, Kangxi Kangxi Emperor, Matteo Ripa, et al.

In 1712, the Kangxi emperor published Imperial Poems on the Mountain Estate for Escaping the Heat (Yuzhi Bishu shanzhuang shi) to commemorate his recently completed summer palace. Through his perceptions of thirty-six of its most scenic views, his poems and descriptions present an unusually intimate self-portrait of the emperor at the age of sixty that reflected the pleasures of his life there as well as his ideals as the ruler of the Qing Empire...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884024091
• ISBN13: 9780884024095
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 4.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.2" x 10.7"