Mapping Chengde: The Qing Landscape Enterprise 9780824863517

The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the m

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Mapping Chengde: The Qing Landscape Enterprise
 9780824863517

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Author’s Notes
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Great Qing at Home
Chapter 3. Hamlet and Imperial Residence
Chapter 4. Garden and Mountain Rhetoric
Chapter 5. The Jehol Frontier
Chapter 6. Capitals and Models
Chapter 7. Representations of Chengde
Chapter 8. Chengde Studies
Appendix 1. Place Name Concordance
Appendix 2. Qing Dynasty Emperors
Appendix 3. Waiba Miao Temples
Appendix 4. The Kangxi Emperor’S Vistas
Appendix 5. Chronology of Chengde
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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