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The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the mountains of Jehol. This volume, the first scholarly publication in English on the Manchu summer capital, reveals how this unlikely architectural and landscape enterprise came to help forge a dynasty's multicultural identity and concretize its claims of political legitimacy. Using both visual and textual materials, the author explores the hidden dimensions of landscape, showing how geographical imagination shaped the aesthetics of Qing court culture while proposing a new interpretation of the mental universe that conceived one of the world's most remarkable examples of imperial architecture.

China --- Chengde (China) --- Chengde (China) --- History --- Civilization. --- History.

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In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours north among the court's Inner Mongolian allies. The Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat (Bishu Shanzhuang) was strategically located at the node of mountain "veins" through which the Qing empire's geomantic energy was said to flow. At this site, from late spring through early autumn, the Kangxi emperor presided over rituals of intimacy and exchange that celebrated his rule: garden tours, banquets, entertainments, and gift giving. Stephen Whiteman draws on resources and methods from art and architectural history, garden and landscape history, early modern global history, and historical geography to reconstruct the Mountain Estate as it evolved under Kangxi, illustrating the importance of landscape as a medium for ideological expression during the early Qing and in the early modern world more broadly. Examination of paintings, prints, historical maps, newly created maps informed by GIS-based research, and personal accounts reveals the significance of geographic space and its representation in the negotiation of Qing imperial ideology. The first monograph in any language to focus solely on the art and architecture of the Kangxi court, 'Where Dragon Veins Meet' illuminates the court's production and deployment of landscape as a reflection of contemporary concerns and offers new insight into the sources and forms of Qing power through material expressions.

Palaces --- Bi shu shan zhuang (Chengde, China) --- Chengde Shi (China) --- Art, Chinese --- Landscapes --- Symbolic aspects --- Kangxi, --- Art patronage.

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documentary photography --- Photography --- Chengde --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- photography [process] --- fotografie --- Lamaïsme --- Central Asia --- Anthropologie socio-culturelle --- Asie --- Azië --- Catalogues d'expositions --- Socio-culturele antropologie --- Tentoonstellingscatalogi --- Rehe Sheng (China) --- Pictorial works --- Exhibitions --- Antwerpen --- Chine --- Exposition --- Iconographie --- Photographie --- S22/0300 --- 282 Landbeschrijvingen (sociaal-economisch-cultureel) --- China --- North-eastern provinces (Manchuria)--Geography, description and travel --- -Pictorial works --- -Exhibitions --- Jehol, China (Province) --- Jehol Province (China) --- Zhekhe (China) --- Nekka (China) --- Yŏrha (China) --- Je-ho (China) --- Nekka shō (China) --- Jehol (China) --- Hebei Sheng (China) --- Liaoning Sheng (China) --- Inner Mongolia (China) --- Exhibitions. --- Jehol (Province) --- Social life and customs --- Description and travel --- Etnografisch Museum --- Bezoekers tentoonstelling --- Rehe Sheng (China) - Pictorial works - Exhibitions

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New Qing Imperial History uses the Manchu summer capital of Chengde and associated architecture, art and ritual activity as the focus for an exploration of the importance of Inner Asia and Tibet to the Qing Empire (1636-1911). Well-known contributors argue that the Qing was not simply another Chinese dynasty, but was deeply engaged in Inner Asia not only militarily, but culturally, politically and ideologically. Emphasizing the diverse range of peoples in the Qing empire, this book analyzes the importance to Chinese history of Manchu relations with Tibetan prelates, Mongolian

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