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Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream: Tales of Taipei Characters (Chinese Literature in Translation)

2 reviews
Hsien-Yung Pai

Indiana University Press, 1982

The "Dubliner" of Modern Taiwanese Lietrature
This is a classic of modern Taiwanese literature. Fourteen short stories of different characters in post-war Taipei -- realistic yet dream-like. It marks the end of pre-communism China and the beginning of another era in Taiwan. The narration is powerful and vivid, the technique a milestone of the Chinese language literature. A real treasure.

Far Beyond the Garden Gate: Alexandra David-Neel's Journey to Lhasa

2 reviews
Don Brown

Houghton Mifflin, 2002

Meet Alexandra David-Neel.....
From early childhood, Alexandra David-Neel dreamed of traveling and exploring faraway places. "I craved to go beyond the garden gate, to follow the road that passed it by, and set out for the unknown," she later recalled. "I dreamed of wild hills, immense deserted steppes, and impassable landscapes of glaciers!" As a child, she traveled away from her ordinary life through books and museums, ...

The Chinese Garden: History, Art and Architecture, Third Edition

4 reviews
Maggie Keswick

Harvard University Press, 2003

The Garden as the Source of History and Philosophy
While the attitudes and examples of Japanese gardens abound in books and in cities around the world, very little has been written or photographs of the unique concepts found in the Chinese gardens. Maggie Keswick repairs that paucity of information with this very beautifully designed, photographed and written monograph on the spirit of the subtle beauties that abound in the Chinese garden. ...

Master of the Lotus Garden: The Life and Art of Bada Shanren (1626-1705)

2 reviews
Wang Fangyu, Richard Barnhart

Yale University Press, 1990

Magical Chinese artist of 17th century beautifully presented
Exhibit catalog with brilliant and interesting text about an enigmatic artist, of noble lineage with a style which appears contempoary but of it's time. A wonderful experience.

Gardens of Pleasure: Eroticism and Art in China

2 reviews
Ferdinand M. Bertholet

Prestel Publishing, 2004

Pages of pleasure
Maybe it wasn't altruism that led Bertholet share his collection in this book. I'm grateful anyway. It's an outstanding collection of Chinese erotic art, from about the end of the 17th century to the late 19th. The works here are all silk paintings, except for a few drawings. They are printed in beautiful color, large enough for easy reading, with expanded details of a few. Bertholet adds plenty ...

China to me: A partial autobiography

4 reviews
Emily Hahn

Garden City Pub. Co, 1946

The adventures of an American expatriate in China (1936-43)
Emily Hahn has been an author and journalist since 1929, when her first stories appeared in The New Yorker magazine. In 1935, she ran away to China in an effort to forget a failed romance and to find herself. By the time she returned home eight years later on a refugee ship, she was a changed woman. China to Me is the story of her life, loves, and adventures in China. It's a candid and ...

The Garden Plants of China

4 reviews
Peter Valder

Timber Press, Incorporated, 1999

The Garden Book of the Year
This book has just been awarded the Reference Garden Book of the Year by the British Garden Writers Guild on the 25th November 1999. An award richly deserved for this superb work of scholarship and book production . It is likely to stand as a major reference work for this intriguing subject for some time. I think that says it all.

Gardens in China

2 reviews
Peter Valder

Timber Press, Incorporated, 2002

Simply Marvellous
Peter Valder has now established himself as one of the world's major horticultural writers with his "Gardens in China" the new companion volume to his wonderful, award winning, "Garden Plants of China". This book looks at over 200 gardens that the author has visited over a period of twenty years. It is a richly descriptive work both historically and geographically and is extremely readable, to ...

The Power of a Teacup: A Story of Art, Love, and Sacred Gardens

2 reviews
Lissi Kaplan

William Morrow, 2003

A Delightful Read
A completely delightful time. Easy to read and beautiful illustrations. This is a great gift for your hostess. Thanks!

China Garden

120 reviews
Liz Berry

Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1994

deeply fabulous
Oh, I love this book. I first came across it when a friend lent it to me. That was in 2004. I still have the book. While I am planning on giving it back to her (soon, I swear) I bring up this embarrassing story just to point out what holding power this book has. At this point, I've read it so many times that I don't remember what my initial reaction was. Every time I reread it, though, ...

Fun With Chinese Knotting: Making Your Own Fashion Accessories and Accents

1 review
Lydia Chen

Tuttle Publishing, 2007

An excellent pick.
Chinese knotting or macrame is an old art form in China, with many patterns having been used for practical and decorative purposes for years. FUN WITH CHINESE KNOTTING: MAKING YOUR OWN FASHION ACCESSORIES AND ACCENTS focuses on the use and applications of Chinese knots as fashion accessories, clothing accepts, and home additions. Nine basic knots, nineteen compound knots and five tassel designs ...

Chinese Garden

1 review
Maggie Keswick

Saint Martin's Press Inc., 1986

The Essential Guide to The Chinese Garden
Rarely do we have a Westerner who can explain the intricacies and beauty of the Chinese Garden, which certainly played an important role in the lives of the Emperors and Empresses, and the Chinese literati. Maggie Keswick, by virtue of her education in Shanghai and her travels in China, has written a unique and lovely book to explain the philosophy behind the Chinese Garden. She has both depth ...

The GARDENS OF CHINA

1 review
Richard Morris

Scribner, 1983

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' ...

Faberge at Hillwood

1 review
Anne Odom

Hillwood Museum & Gardens, 2006

Faberge at Hillwood
This book is a must to anyone interested in Faberge art. The book is written by the chief curator at Hillwood,which is the Washington, D.C. residence of the late Marjorie Merriweather Post, cereal heiress, collector, and philanthropist. There are 53 exquisite color photos in 80 pages of text. Some photos are extreme close up of intricate detailed artworks. Mrs. Post owns two imperial Easter ...

A Comparative Study of Landscape Aesthetics: Landscape Morphology

1 review
Jiahua Wu

Edwin Mellen Press, 1994

a comparison for artists and landscape designers alike
Dispels any bizarre notions running around in the current glug of so-called feng shui books with its careful analysis of divergent landscaping aesthetics in China and Eurowest. From a cogent discussion of landscape painting through the ages -- including Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and the Aegean to Shan Shui -- you understand the breadth and depth of the subject like no other book has pursued the ...

Chinese Gardens

1 review
Lou Qingxi

China Intercontinental Press, 2003

Excellent!
Great insights into the "art form" Chinese Garden as well as a complimentary sightseeing guide. Written by a Chinese professor of "history and ancient architecture and theory", this book not only describes the "now to be seen", but also the "why" and "how it came to be like it is today". Covers Gardens all over China.

The Garden As Architecture: Form and Spirit in the Gardens of Japan, China, and Korea

1 review
Toshiro Inaji

Kodansha International (JPN), 1998

Contrasts in how 3 cultures relate buildings & gardens.
The highest compliment which I can pay to a book is to say that it has a place in my "Desert Island" library - that is to say that if I were to find myself stranded on an island and could only have a few books on a given subject, this would be one of them. The Garden as Architecture is such a book; it is fascinating, well-written and profusely illustrated, and is lucid enough to be enjoyable ...

Penjing: The Chinese Art of Miniature Garden: The Shanghai Botanic Garden

1 review
Hu Yunhua

Timber Press, Incorporated, 1982

Gives new meaning to neat, elegant
Nice plates, good text, an inspiring book. Well worth the high retail price I paid for it.

The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic ...

27 reviews
Vicki Croke

Random House, 2005

I loved this book!
I loved this book! Adventure, history, romance, and the story of a woman who was 70 years ahead of our own conservation movement. I had heard of Ruth Harkness from George Schaller's book "The Last Panda," and from a World Wildlife Fund web page, but the details of this action-packed story blew me away. No wonder this book got the reviews it did. Superbly written and a page-turner to boot.

The Gunpowder Gardens

1 review
Jason Goodwin

Penguin Books Ltd, 2003

A Time for Tea
This book was also published in paperback in the United States under the title A Time for Tea: Travels Through China and India in Search of Tea (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991). Informed and entertaining, the book is a combination travelogue-history; the author visits China, India, and a few other tea-related places (Boston, as in Tea Party), all the while telling us how tea is grown, ...

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