1st Edition
From Temples to Garden Estates and Academies Landscape Transformation of Suzhou During the 13th–16th Centuries and Beyond
Introduction
1. Garden Estates: Transforming Urban Hydrology
2. Constructing the Temple-scape
3. Converting Temples into Literati Gardens
4. Converting Temples into Confucian Institutions
5. From Buddhist to Gentry Society
Conclusion: A New Garden History: Hydro-Social Transformation Illuminated by 3D Modelling and GIS Mapping
Biography
Pania Yanjie Mu is a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University, Germany, and co-founder of P. M. Architects. She received her PhD from the Faculty of Architecture, the University of Hong Kong.
"This very welcome book contributes substantially to our understanding of the developing role of gardens in Yuan and Ming Suzhou. Its particular strengths lie in the provision of a very strong sense of change over time, of an actual history of garden spaces in the city, while integrating them into wider developments. The innovative modelling and drawing of these spaces is particularly valuable, and makes a major contribution to the clarity of the argument throughout."
Craig Clunas, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford
