Chinese Gardens (Cultural China Series)

A first edition, first printing softcover in very good condition. The covers and flaps are clean and unmarked, with light rubbing around the edges. Pages are clean and free of marks throughout. A tidy copy. Chinese Gardens. Lou Qingxi. Translated by Zhang Lei and Yu Hong. Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, 2003. Cultural China Series. English edition of Zhongguo yuanlin, first issued in Chinese the same year. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. A history of the Chinese garden, from its origins through the private gardens of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the south and north, with a section on construction technology. Lou Qingxi is a graduate of Tsinghua University’s Department of Architecture and spent a long career researching and teaching the history of ancient Chinese architecture. This volume is his history of the Chinese garden.