Abstract
Abstract. In 17–18th century, the spread of the image of the Qing Imperial Garden witnessed the cross-cultural exchanges and promoted the development of English Landscape Garden style. The reciprocal ‘far away foreign land’ between Chinese and British cultures and the influence of historical context had caused the discrepant view of European on Chinese gardens. This project focuses on the differences of cultural heritage values found in the two kinds of gardens: from the design of space and structure, poems and paintings representing designers' concepts, humanities factors, design conception, gardening elements and etc. Which hopes to fill up the gaps of relevant studies and stress the importance of documentation for gardens between the East and West. There are three aspects to illustrate the inner differences under the surface similarities between the two kinds of gardens. Firstly, the distortion and discontinuity through out the introduction and translation.This research attempts to cross-examine such an argument through an investigation into the journey to the West by the carrier of Chinese Imperial garden ideas. Then the meaning of ‘views of nature’ in the English Landscape Garden was inconsistent with the Chinese concept of ‘natural state of the world’. Thirdly, the differences of historical background, culture and values between the Qing Imperial Garden and the English Landscape Garden. All in all, this research could well invite a more factually-based understanding of the Sino-English architectural interactions as well as the Chinese contributions to the world architecture.
Highlights
In the 18th century, The Qing Imperial Garden in China and the English Landscape Garden in Britain were the two major peaks of the natural gardens in the history of garden arts and cultural heritage
The meaning of ‘views of nature’ in the English Landscape Garden was inconsistent with the Chinese concept of nature, or ‘natural state of the world’ in the Qing Imperial Garden
The academic achievements by previous scholars tend to focus on morphological studies and garden layout instead of the differences of culture and values between the Qing Imperial Garden and the English Landscape Garden
Summary
In the 18th century, The Qing Imperial Garden in China and the English Landscape Garden in Britain were the two major peaks of the natural gardens in the history of garden arts and cultural heritage. The English or British interest in Chinese gardens may be traced to the 17th century when Sir William Temple (1691) describes the irregular layout of Chinese gardens. This interest developed in the 18th century, as illustrated in a number of publications such as Deigns of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils (1757) by William Chambers. Wu Jiangyang and Jan Woudstra(2015) confirm the key issues directly pushing Chinese gardening features developing in English landscape gardens were the movement of English landscape gardening and the fashion of Chinoiserie These studies pay little attention to illustrate the inner differences under the surface similarities between the Qing Imperial Garden and the English Landscape Garden in 18th Century. The differences of historical background, culture and values between the Qing Imperial Garden and the English Landscape Garden
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