History of the Peking Summer Palaces under the Ch'ing Dynasty

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Urbana, University of Illinois, 1934

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English text.; Hardcover (without dust jacket).; 17.5 x 26 cm.; 0.8 kg.; 247 pages with black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The exterior show wear marks, edge wear, scuffs and scratches, the edge are slightly bumped and turning inwards. The outside text block show signs of wear. Interior signs of wear, namely some wear marks and minor yellowing. Pencil written text on first page with notes concerning the Musee Chinois at the Chateau de Fontainebleau created at 1863 by the Empress Eugenie.; "To speak of the "Summer Palaces" of Chinese emperors is to recall the well-known lines of Coleridge: "In Xanadu did Kublai Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea." Xanadu, or Shang Tu, as the Chinese call it, is a forgotten, grass-grown ruin in Mongolia, about two hundred miles north of Peking, for Kublai was a Mongol, and, although he rebuilt and beautified the Peking which his grandfather had destroyed, he loved to spend the summer days in the wide, free world of his ancestors. The Manchus, too, had many parks and forest reserves in which they sought pleasure "far from the madding crowd." One of these was the hunting lodge at Jehol, four days journey northeast of Peking, where massive buildings in imitation of Lhasa's Tibetan lamasery were surrounded by many square miles of woodland. It was there that Chia Ch'ing was killed by lightning and there that Hsien Feng died after being driven by British and French armies from Peking in 1860. To those who have lived in Peking the mention of "Summer Palaces" at once recalls a vision of rare loveliness, the Wan Shou Shan, or Hills of Long Life, the summer home of the great Empress Dowager, Tz'u Hsi, who built it with funds raised ostensibly for the creation of a modern navy: -a placid lake of limpid water, lying at the foot of the Western Hills, high-arched bridges of white marble, beautiful gardens, palaces with roofs of golden-colored tiles, a temple for worship, and a theatre for entertainment. Near this enclosure on the northeast are the ruins of the far-famed Yuan Ming Yuan looted by French and British troops in 1860 and destroyed by the British in reprisal for the torture and murder of prisoners taken under a flag of truce. These two pleasure gardens and others now in ruins are described by Dr. Malone. Today Peking is no longer the capital. To assist us in forgetting its proud past, we are asked to call the place "Peip'ing," one of the many names by which it was known in the centuries gone. The palaces are deserted and emperor and courtiers are fled into obscurity. It is well that there should be preserved some record of the beauty that once delighted the eyes of mighty monarchs. The future historian will be indebted to Dr. Malone for the painstaking labor with which he has collected the information stored in this volume." foreword by Edward Thomas Williams, University of California.…

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Titel
History of the Peking Summer Palaces under the Ch'ing Dynasty
Autor
Malone, Carroll Browne
Verlag
Urbana, University of Illinois
Erscheinungsjahr
1934
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Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
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Jorge Welsh Books has been dealing in art reference books since 1999. What started as a platform for the distribution of publications by Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing has now evolved into an established bookselling division. We focus in our fields of expertise, specifically cross-cultural works of art from Africa, India, China and Japan, with an emphasis on Chinese porcelain. Our aim is to source and deliver relevant publications in the best possible condition to collectors and academics alike, while providing a high-quality, personalised service.…

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