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Mapping Chengde: The Qing Landscape Enterprise. By Philippe ForÊt. [Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2000. xvii+209 pp. $32.95. ISBN 0-8248-2293-5.]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2003

Lucie Olivova
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Extract

This is the first monograph in English on the Chengde imperial summer resort (bishu shanzhuang), declared by UNESCO in 1994 a site of World Heritage. The author nonetheless attempts more than a survey of monuments (see chapter three for the architectural history of the complete resort: the road, palace, hill stations and outer temples). He comes with a distinct, new approach, when analysing and reading the symbolic meaning of this cultural landscape.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 173 , March 2003 , pp. 214 - 251
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© The China Quarterly, 2003

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