The Great Gardens of China: History, Concepts, Techniques

An excellent and beautifully illustrated treatment of Chinese gardens explaining the ideas behind them and the changes throughout historyIf you wish an excellent overview and vicarious trip to China this is a beautiful book on the subject. As a bonus it gives some idea of pastChinese domestic architecture as it also covers the buildings that are a part of each garden

Great book for a lover of all things gardens. I saw this at my local botanical gardens and actually found it cheaper here on amazon.

This book is filled with beautiful photos

It seems that most of the photos were taken at, autumn and winter, very litle in spring. I was expecting more.

a wonderful book!

This was a gift to my Chinese Brush Painting Instructor. It lived up to everything we expected and the price was excellent. Once again, service was excellent. Well packed.

I have 3 books on Chinese Garden, but this one is newly published and the best available for readers. Other books that read like a tour, from an outsiders eye; but this book is from an insider's study. And from the book forward a reader may know this book gets to the point, it directly shows you what is Chinese Garden Art, instead of investigation of other authors.When reader read the topic and content list, that he may know that this author is someone who builds Chinese garden, very thruly and logically guides reader to the tour, from each building, elements, and provided with feature and usage thru a culture and historical view, and reader will not be lost in searching the depth of wisdom of garden, but other books that reader easily lost in every beautiful page, yet once finishes still not to grasp a complete picture.This one is correct tour guide to the Temple of Chinese Art, garden.I beg all of the readers will love this book page by page, not only because the sensual photos it folds, but a way that this book shows the art of life, from the beginning page to the last like visual symphony that all the beauty of life, art, philosophy... unveil to our eye. So the reader will become one with this book, this art, be harmony to our earth and adjust our perception about the true pleasure of our world. Not only that, this book shows reader how to build a garden, how to borrow the landscape, use nature, adapt our surrounding, so our bed chamber, library, living room, party house, bridges, hallway, corridors, lounge, White walls, gates, windows, path, rock, pond, lake, stream, river, waterfall, fountain, grass, flower, trees, birds, ducks, fish, pet, even snow, wind, rain, sunshine, moonlight, and friends, family and music instrument, painting scroll, calligraphy board...all become one.And every reader will become an artist by reading this book 3 times.