Abstract
Various texts, Chinese as well as Western, have given an idealized and unhistorical picture of the ‘Chinese garden’, by identifYing an ideal model based on the gardens of some southern Chinese cities, particularly Suzhou. Maggie Keswick, for example, writes: ‘Like the plans of Gothic cathedrals, Chinese gardens are cosmic diagrams, revealing a profound and ancient view of the world, and of man's place in it.’2 Similarly, R. Stewart Johnston writes:
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