Title: Drawing boundaries : architectural images in Qing China /
Authors: Chung, Anita.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Architecture in art.; Buildings in art.; Painting, Chinese; Architectural drawing China.
Abstract: "Qing China (1644-1912) witnessed a resurgence in architectural painting, a traditional subject category known as jiehua, or boundary painting. Drawing Boundaries concerns itself with the symbolic implications of this impressive and little studied reflorescence.
Contents: The Jiehua tradition -- Patrons and painters -- The Qing Imperial domains : court representations I -- The idealized scheme : court representations II -- Moving gardens : Yangzhou representations I -- Transmitting history and myth : Yangzhou representations II.