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An Explanatory Discourse by Tan Chet-qua of Quang-chew-fu, Gent.
William, Sir Chambers and Richard Quaintance
Sir William Chambers dressed his argument as a Chinese gentleman's lecture on gardens. Speaking through Tan Chet-qua, he sets out a theory of landscape design meant to jolt the tidy English garden toward surprise, variety, and feeling. A witty eighteenth-century manifesto on how grounds should be shaped. Wander the imagined pleasure-grounds this discourse builds.
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33 chapters
- 1EXPLANATORY DISCOURSE
- 2Tan Chet-qua, of Quang-chew-fu, Gent. SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS (1773)
- 3Introduction by Richard E. Quaintance, Jr.
- 4Publication Number 191 WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY University of California, Los Angeles
- 51978
- 6INTRODUCTION
- 7NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
- 8BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- 9A
- 10DISSERTATION
- 11ON
- 12ORIENTAL GARDENING;
- 13Sr: WILLIAM CHAMBERS, Knt:
- 14Comptroller General of his Majesty's Works.
- 15LONDON:
- 16A
- 17DISSERTATION
- 18ORIENTAL GARDENING;
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