Building and gardening practices in eighteenth-century Yangzhou: the view from Li Dou's the pleasure boats of Yangzhou (Yangzhou huafang lu, 1795)
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
The artistic traditions of eighteenth-century China were divided between the Qing court in the capital Beijing, on the one hand, and other centers, here represented by Yangzhou, on the other. These two traditions have often been distinguished as amateur versus professional, and academic versus professional. There has been a tendency to view the exchange between South and North as one-directional, involving the appropriation of "Southern" cultural practices and manners of self-fashioning by the Qing court, the imperial inspection tours to the South, and the "institutionalization" of Southern fashions and styles in the imperial palace...
Source Publication
Yangzhou, a Place in Literature: The Local in Chinese Cultural History
ISBN
9780824839888
First Page
152
Last Page
172
Recommended Citation
Chan, W. Y. (2015). Building and gardening practices in eighteenth-century Yangzhou: the view from Li Dou's the pleasure boats of Yangzhou (Yangzhou huafang lu, 1795). Yangzhou, a Place in Literature: The Local in Chinese Cultural History, 152-172. Retrieved from https://repository.vtc.edu.hk/thei-fac-de-sp/80