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Guide to secondary sources on Chinese gardens

Guide to secondary sources on Chinese gardens Abstract The following guide is offered as a reference tool of first recourse for students of Chinese garden history. Chinese gardens did not form a category in traditional Chinese bibliographies, and even twentieth-century bibliographies of Chinese studies and Asian studies do not always feature architecture and gardens as standard categories. Many scholars will appreciate the necessity of searching through a considerable number of categories in most bibliographies in order to gather pertinent sources on Chinese gardens: paintings of gardens are commonly listed under ‘painting’ or ‘art’, textual histories of relevant classical Chinese sources are sometimes listed under ‘bibliography’, studies of particular gardens are sometimes listed as biographical studies of their literati-owners. Pertinent publications are also found under categories such as ‘literary history’, ‘horticulture’, ‘historical geography’ and ‘history of science’, In consequence, a search for sources on a particular garden or topic of Chinese garden history often requires a general search of various categories through indexes and bibliographies. The whole process is rendered more onerous since a considerable number of Chinese journals on architecture and landscape architecture are not indexed in standard reference works such as the ibliography of Asian Studies, the Révue bibliographique de sinologie and the Tôyôgaku bunken ruimoku. Standard architectural reference tools such as the Architectural Periodicals Index and the Avery Index of Architectural Periodicals have also neglected most of these journals. First-hand searches through the individual issues are therefore unavoidable. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

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Taylor & Francis
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1943-2186
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10.1080/14601176.1998.10435551
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Abstract The following guide is offered as a reference tool of first recourse for students of Chinese garden history. Chinese gardens did not form a category in traditional Chinese bibliographies, and even twentieth-century bibliographies of Chinese studies and Asian studies do not always feature architecture and gardens as standard categories. Many scholars will appreciate the necessity of searching through a considerable number of categories in most bibliographies in order to gather pertinent sources on Chinese gardens: paintings of gardens are commonly listed under ‘painting’ or ‘art’, textual histories of relevant classical Chinese sources are sometimes listed under ‘bibliography’, studies of particular gardens are sometimes listed as biographical studies of their literati-owners. Pertinent publications are also found under categories such as ‘literary history’, ‘horticulture’, ‘historical geography’ and ‘history of science’, In consequence, a search for sources on a particular garden or topic of Chinese garden history often requires a general search of various categories through indexes and bibliographies. The whole process is rendered more onerous since a considerable number of Chinese journals on architecture and landscape architecture are not indexed in standard reference works such as the ibliography of Asian Studies, the Révue bibliographique de sinologie and the Tôyôgaku bunken ruimoku. Standard architectural reference tools such as the Architectural Periodicals Index and the Avery Index of Architectural Periodicals have also neglected most of these journals. First-hand searches through the individual issues are therefore unavoidable.

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Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Sep 1, 1998

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