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Fruitful Sights: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China
Fruitful Sights Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China Author:Craig Clunas This innovative, beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-making in Ming Dynasty China (1368-1644) firmly in the social and cultural history of the day. Craig Clunas provides a rich picture of a complex cultural phenomenon, one that was of crucial importance to the self-fashioning of the Ming elite.Craig Clunas is the Perciva... more »l David chair of Chinese art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and the author of Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China (Reaktion, 1997).« less