Garden Talks
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- 对中国古典园林与造园艺术感兴趣的入门读者
- 建筑、景观、城市规划专业的学生与从业者
- 喜欢读文化散文、追求清雅文字的读者
- 计划游苏州、扬州、杭州等地园林的旅行者
Not a good fit for
- 希望得到系统教材、图纸与施工技术资料的读者
- 偏爱通俗故事和快节奏叙事的读者
Reading tips
- 先读《说园》五篇建立整体眼光，再进入具体园记，前后呼应。
- 读到某一园时不妨对照实景或图片阅读，体会“借景”“藏与隐”等手法。
- 随身携带作小册子，游园前后各读一篇，把书本知识转成观看习惯。
- 可与陈从周《苏州园林》《说园》单行本对读，看不同时期的文字取舍。
About the publisher
Zhonghua Book Company is a publisher known for collating ancient texts and academic publishing, with its output centered on Eastern philosophy, culture, classic works, art, and historical reading. Its library contains 532 titles, including Chen Shou's Records of the Three Kingdoms, Guo Qingfan's Collected Commentaries on Zhuangzi, the four-volume Chinese Literature: Four Great Classical Novels, and the two-volume Table of Seal and Clerical Script Forms from Qin, Han, Wei, and Jin. These titles span historical classics, commentaries on the philosophers, classical novels, and philological reference works. Representative authors include Chen Shou, Guo Qingfan, Wu Cheng'en, Shi Nai'an, Cao Xueqin, Luo Guanzhong, Xu Wenwu, and the Hanyu Dazidian character-form group, reflecting a focus on primary sources and scholarly editors. Its publishing character lies in combining authoritative editions and annotated texts with both accessible classics and specialized research. Public information on its fuller catalog is limited; this note describes only the directions evident in the library's holdings.
Contents
- On Gardens
- More on Gardens
- On Gardens (III)
- On Gardens (IV)
- On Gardens (V)
- Chinese Garden Art and Aesthetics
- Chinese Poetry and Prose and Chinese Garden Art
- The Poor Girl's Clever Coiffure: On Chinese Gardens
- Northern and Southern Gardens, Each with Its Own Splendor
- Miscellaneous Notes on Gardens
- The Social Background and Urban Life of Ming and Qing Gardens
- Reflections on Beauty from the Woodwork Studio
- Garden Beauty and Kunqu Beauty
- Gardens and Landscape Painting
- The Problem of 'Borrowed Scenery' in Architecture
- Corridors, Pavilions, Bridges
- An Overview of Suzhou Gardens
- Suzhou's Master of the Nets Garden
- Suzhou's Mountain Villa of Secluded Beauty
- Suzhou's Surging Waves Pavilion
- A Note on the Lingering Garden
- The Yu Garden and the Couple's Garden
- Yangzhou Gardens and Residences
- Rambling Notes on the Slender West Lake
- Yangzhou's Slice of Stone Mountain House: Shi Tao's Rockery Work
- Changshu Gardens
- Taizhou's Qiao Garden
- The Water-Inscribed Garden Surrounded by Double Walls
- Tongli's Retreat and Reflection Garden
- Rambling Notes on the Style of West Lake Gardens
- Idle Talk on West Lake Gardens
- Shaoxing's Shen Garden and Spring Wave Bridge
- A Famous Zhejiang Garden: Notes on Haiyan's Qi Garden
- Shanghai's Yu Garden and Inner Garden
- Listening to Music at the Yu Garden
- Jiading's Autumn Cloud Garden and Haining's Anlan Garden
- The Prince Gong Mansion and the Grand View Garden
- A Note on the Prince Gong Mansion
- Editor's Postscript (Chen Xin)
FAQ
这本书适合完全没有园林基础的人读吗？
这本书和《说园》是同一本书吗？
为什么书名叫“清话”？
书里提到的园林现在还能游览吗？
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About the author
Chen Congzhou (1918–2000), originally named Yuwen, was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, born in Hangzhou. A scholar of ancient architecture and garden art and a professor at Tongji University, he devoted his life to the study of classical Chinese gardens and historic buildings. His works include On Gardens, Suzhou Gardens, and Yangzhou Gardens; he led the restoration of Yu Garden and Shuihui Garden and designed the Ming Hall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and is known as the father of modern Chinese garden studies. The works by him in this catalogue span scholarly garden writing and prose collections. Titles such as the Dictionary of Chinese Garden Appreciation and the seven-volume Chen Congzhou on Gardens set out garden knowledge and appreciation, while collections such as Zishi Yumo, Shiyuan Ji, and Chuntai Ji record people and events and discuss art and scenery in an elegant style, joining garden theory with literati sensibility. His writing is thus both scholarly and highly readable, and is often classified under architecture, design, culture, and classic works.
Chen Xin is a Chinese author about whom limited public information is available; details of her life and nationality are not recorded in the current database. Two works are confirmed under her name. The first, Garden Notes (Yuanlin Qinghua), falls under art and architecture and offers discussion and commentary on the theme of gardens. The second, The No. 9 Story Grocery Store, is categorized as premium fiction, healing fiction, and social fiction, and is notable for its storytelling, with an orientation toward warmth and real-world concern. The marked gap between the two subjects—garden art and spatial aesthetics on one side, the everyday lives and emotions of ordinary people on the other—suggests the author has tried her hand in different writing fields. Lacking reliable biographical or self-reflective material, any judgment of her style and influence can only be preliminary, based on these categories, and further details await additional sources.
