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Han, C. 2012: The aesthetics of wandering in the Chinese literati garden. - Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 32(4): 297-301. [RLL List # 231 / Rec.# 34594]
Abstract: Jia Zheng found the unostentatious simplicity of this entrance greatly to his liking, and, after ordering the gates to be opened, passed on inside. A cry of admiration escaped them as they entered, for there, immediately in front of them, screening everything else from their view, rose a steep, verdure-clad hill. 'Without this hill,' . . . 'the whole garden would be visible as one entered, and all its mystery would be lost.' The literary gentlemen concurred. 'Only a master of the art of landscape could have conceived so bold a stroke,' said one of them. As they gazed at this miniature mountain, they observed a great number of large white rocks in all kinds of grotesque and monstrous shapes, rising course above course up one of its sides, some recumbent, some upright or leaning at angles, their surfaces streaked and spotted with moss and lichen or half concealed by creepers, and with a narrow, zig-zag path only barely discernible to the eye winding up between them. 'Let us begin our tour by following this path,' said Jia Zheng. 'If we work our way round towards the other side of the hill on our way back, we shall have made a complete circuit of the garden.' © 2012 taylor & francis.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2012.721995
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