Title

Building and gardening practices in eighteenth-century Yangzhou: the view from Li Dou's the pleasure boats of Yangzhou (Yangzhou huafang lu, 1795)

Authors

Winnie Yuen Lai Chan, Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, Vocational Training CouncilFollow

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