Research Catalog

Title

The emperor's private paradise : treasures from the Forbidden City / Nancy Berliner ; with Mark C. Elliott ... [et al.].

Author

Berliner, Nancy Zeng, 1958-

Publication

Salem, Mass. : Peabody Essex Museum ; New Haven, Conn. : In association with Yale University Press, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Elliott, Mark C.
• Peabody Essex Museum
• Gu gong bo wu yuan (China)
• World Monuments Fund (New York, N.Y.)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
• Milwaukee Art Museum

Description

255 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 32 cm.

Summary

For centuries, China's Forbidden City has captured the world's imagination. Yet the elegant, intimate Qianlong Garden - itself within a 'mini-Forbidden City' inside the Forbidden City - has remained sequestered from public view. This title gives an analysis of the garden, which is one of the most refined and elegant of imperial Chinese gardens.

Subject

• Forbidden City (Beijing, China) > Exhibitions
• Gardens, Chinese > Beijing > Exhibitions
• Palaces > Beijing > Exhibitions
• Decoration and ornament, Architectural > Beijing > Exhibitions
• Beijing (China) > Buildings, structures, etc. > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "Accompanies the exhibition of the same name organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, in partnership with the Palace Museum and in cooperation with the World Monuments Fund, on view from September 14, 2010 through January 9, 2011; and traveling to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from February 3, 2011 through May 1, 2011; and the Milwaukee Art Museum, from June 11, 2011 through September 12, 2011"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-247) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Dan L. Monroe and Lynda Roscoe Hartigan -- The Palace Museum and the Qianlong Garden / Zheng Xinmiao -- The World Monuments Fund and the Qianlong Garden / Bonnie Burnham -- Chronology of Chinese Dynasties and Reigns of Qing Emperors -- Timeline of China, Europe, and America in the 1700s / Bruce MacLaren -- Map of the Qianlong Garden -- Introduction: The Qianlong Emperor and his age / Mark C. Elliott -- Gardens for emperors and scholars / Nancy Berliner -- The Qianlong Emperor's earlier gardens / Nancy Berliner -- The Qianlong Garden in the Palace of tranquility and longevity / Nancy Berliner -- Coda: The survival and revival of the Emperor's vision / Liu Chang, Yuan Hongqi, and Henry Tzu Ng -- Catalogue of the exhibition.

ISBN

• 9780300163896 (Yale Univ. Press, cloth)
• 0300163894 (Yale Univ. Press, cloth)
• 9780875772218 (Peabody Essex Museum, pbk.) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 601346900
• SCSB-11717278

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library